On 04/23/2010 04:06 PM, John D. Mort wrote: > I want to buy this HDD to solve my storage woes: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136490 > > All this talk about Advanced Format Hard Drive Technology is making me > wonder if this is a good buy though. If I want my XP partition to be > able to read it properly I'll have to install their WD Align utility > (unlikely I'll bother though, as the XP partition is just got gaming.) > The fact that this requirement is in place for XP though makes me > uncertain where linux stands with this technology. > http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/ > > I'm running Ubuntu 9.10, with the intention of hopping on board 10.04
http://www.osnews.com/story/22872/Linux_Not_Fully_Prepared_for_4096-Byte_Sector_Hard_Drives is probably the most useful bit I've found around it. The synopsis: Linux will do 4k blocks fine (the entire os is pretty much 4k aligned already), but the partitioning tools don't naturally 4k align. If you force the partitions to start on a 4k boundary... life is good. If you don't, it can be an extreme (3x) performance hit. -Sean -- __________________________________________________________________ Sean Dague Mid-Hudson Valley sean at dague dot net Linux Users Group http://dague.net http://mhvlug.org There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. __________________________________________________________________
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