03-24-2006, 04:17 AM
It's a 7200.9 Seagate SATA HDrive, which may, or may not, have SSC (Spread Spectrum Clocking) enabled. You'll never know until you hook it up to a Mac and see if it'll work or not. Alternatively, as OWC Larry will tell you, the HDrive can be put in a PC and have Seagate's SSC Utility used on it.
There is no Mac version of the utility, unfortunately.
If a 7200.9's birthday is in the past month or so, SSC is now disabled OEM, in the retail channel, according to infomation I've read on Seagate's web site. So if one were to purchase one of these drives from Newegg.com, it's a total crap-shoot as to whether SSC is enabled, or not. Unfortunately. Just depends on when the HDrive was made, on a drive-by-drive basis.
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There is no Mac version of the utility, unfortunately.
If a 7200.9's birthday is in the past month or so, SSC is now disabled OEM, in the retail channel, according to infomation I've read on Seagate's web site. So if one were to purchase one of these drives from Newegg.com, it's a total crap-shoot as to whether SSC is enabled, or not. Unfortunately. Just depends on when the HDrive was made, on a drive-by-drive basis.
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