Quote Originally Posted by pa9797 View Post
Today went down to SLS and came back with a pair of 1TB of EARS.



This pair was manufactured on 10 Dec and Made in Thailand. The new EARS come with 64mb Cache instead of 32mb Cache.

It has also instructions written on the Decal if you are running Windows XP as your OS to achieve the benefits of Advanced format drive:



Comparing the EARS and the EADS



SRP per drive is $138

The other improvement is that this is an Advance Format drive.



In terms of performance, The EARS as compared with the EADS 's 2 versions (P8B0 and M2B0):







Even with 64Mb cache , its performance still not as good as the P8B0 version which comes with a full 5 years warranty.
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