On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Sean Dague wrote:
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
Yes. This is the work around I mentioned. You can use parted
to advantage.
Lex
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