I am building a "low power server" using a combo deal i3-550 and freebie Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H board. A while back I bought three 2TB Samsung F4 drives for media storage, tonight I updated their firmware. I'll use a laptop drive for the OS.
When I run Samsung ES Tools it shows that SMART is now disabled on the drives. It seems like a good idea, but I have no idea if there is a large performance hit. Would you enable it?
There is also an option for setting for AAM (automatic acoustic mode) with choices fast, middle, quiet, disable. It was set on disable, I changed it to fast. Does anyone know if there is a big difference in settings?
Thanks!!
Jim
When I run Samsung ES Tools it shows that SMART is now disabled on the drives. It seems like a good idea, but I have no idea if there is a large performance hit. Would you enable it?
There is also an option for setting for AAM (automatic acoustic mode) with choices fast, middle, quiet, disable. It was set on disable, I changed it to fast. Does anyone know if there is a big difference in settings?
Thanks!!
Jim