Op zaterdag 23 februari 2013 01:59:32 schreef andre999: > Johnny A. Solbu a écrit : > > On Saturday 23. February 2013 05.38, Norman Carver wrote: > >> People should also know that many 3TB drives now have 4k sectors > > > > How can one tell if this is the case? > > fdisk -l /dev/sd* > gives both the logical and physical sector sizes at the top (along with > other global info), before listing the partitions. > It gives this info for both mbr and gpt partition tables. > But it only lists the partitions for an mbr partition table. > > gdisk -l /dev/sd* > gives the logical sector size at the top. (It might not indicate a > differing physical sector size, but in any case it is the logical size > which counts for OS addressing. The physical size is explicitly > indicated inside gdisk.) > It lists the partitions for both mbr and gpt tables (and maybe other > formats). > > Note : sd* should be sda or sdb or ... , according to the disk in question.
when i installed on a 3TB disk, on mga3, i used the rescue to partition it with gdisk, and after that, i did the install those cheap 3TB seagates are good imho i actually bought 6 of those for about 100EUR/piece