On 8/17/2011 9:25 AM, Pete Orrall wrote:
BTW:
Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM?
I believe IBM sold Hitachi their hard drive business.
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), had already been producing all of IBM's disk
drives for about a decade. IBM simply sold HDS the brands UltraStar
and DeskStar,
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:11:32 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
#include hallo.h
* Camaleón [Tue, Aug 16 2011, 05:30:07PM]:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:31:53 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It
will be used entirely to store media files.
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:11:12 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 8/16/2011 12:30 PM, Camaleón wrote:
A single volume of 2 TiB is very big (and big file systems are more
prone to errors and hard to recover in the event of a corruption...
fsck can take... ages? :-P).
I've never seen a
No, no, those wer the *IBM* Deathstar drives. There was a particular
run of IBM Deskstar drives that all failed after a certain amount of
usage due to some non-obvious manufacturing flaw
Oh yes that's right.
I was almost immediately fired because *I* had done backups on spare
tapes and was
On 8/16/2011 12:30 PM, Camaleón wrote:
A single volume of 2 TiB is very big (and big file systems are more prone
to errors and hard to recover in the event of a corruption... fsck can
take... ages? :-P).
I've never seen a correlation between filesystem size and probability of
FS corruption.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:51:44PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote:
I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will
be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in
formating the
What's the best choice of the portable hard drive.
reliable. 1TB.
There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once
tried the hitachi.
Thanks,
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote:
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:51:44PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Pete Orrall ppat...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 21:27 +0800, lina wrote:
What's the best choice of the portable hard drive.
reliable. 1TB.
There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once
tried the hitachi.
Hitachi is fantastic.
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 21:27 +0800, lina wrote:
What's the best choice of the portable hard drive.
reliable. 1TB.
There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once
tried the hitachi.
Hitachi is fantastic. I've been using their drives in my machines since
2003 with no
Dne 17.8.2011 15:27, piše lina:
What's the best choice of the portable hard drive.
reliable. 1TB.
There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once
tried the hitachi.
Thanks,
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Roger Leighrle...@codelibre.net wrote:
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at
2011/8/17 Dejan Ribič dejan.ri...@gmail.com:
Dne 17.8.2011 15:27, piše lina:
What's the best choice of the portable hard drive.
reliable. 1TB.
I'd go with emc, iirc they stress test drives before they send them to you :)
There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once
BTW:
Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM?
I believe IBM sold Hitachi their hard drive business.
I am just asking because I didn't have
the best experience with IBM drives, had two of them and they both broke
within 18 months(lucky for me I had quaranty for them :D ).
How interesting. I hear
On 08/17/2011 07:55 PM, Pete Orrall wrote:
How interesting. I hear many people have had problems with Hitachi
drives, hence the nickname Hitachi DeathStar but myself...I've had
no problems using their drives of any capacity from sizes smaller than
80GB all the way to 1TB.
Probably cause
On 2011-08-17 16:19:27, Dejan Ribič wrote:
BTW: Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM? I am just asking because
I didn't have the best experience with IBM drives, had two of them
and they both broke within 18 months(lucky for me I had quaranty for
them :D ).
Yes. Deathstar ring any bells?
How did you get your lucky portable hard driver?
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Allan Wind
allan_w...@lifeintegrity.com wrote:
On 2011-08-17 16:19:27, Dejan Ribič wrote:
BTW: Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM? I am just asking because
I didn't have the best experience with IBM drives, had two
On 8/17/2011 10:19 AM, Dejan Ribič wrote:
Dne 17.8.2011 15:27, piše lina:
What's the best choice of the portable hard drive.
reliable. 1TB.
There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once
tried the hitachi.
Thanks,
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Roger
On 8/17/2011 10:48 AM, Mihira Fernando wrote:
On 08/17/2011 07:55 PM, Pete Orrall wrote:
How interesting. I hear many people have had problems with Hitachi
drives, hence the nickname Hitachi DeathStar but myself...I've had
no problems using their drives of any capacity from sizes smaller than
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote:
On 8/17/2011 10:19 AM, Dejan Ribič wrote:
Dne 17.8.2011 15:27, piše lina:
What's the best choice of the portable hard drive.
reliable. 1TB.
There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once
tried the
On 8/17/2011 11:41 AM, lina wrote:
Yeah. Here I meant external hard drive. (Actually I have no idea about
what's kind of driver I used in desktop or laptop).
The external drives mainly plan to store some data which won't be
visited often, kind of back up.
500 GB + 500 GB is much more safer
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote:
On 8/17/2011 11:41 AM, lina wrote:
Yeah. Here I meant external hard drive. (Actually I have no idea about
what's kind of driver I used in desktop or laptop).
The external drives mainly plan to store some data which
On 08/17/2011 09:32 PM, lina wrote:
How do I check hard drive information of the desktop?
Thanks,
# dmesg | grep ata
among other things, it showed :
[1.296919] ata1.00: ATA-7: Hitachi HTS541680J9SA00, SB2OC70P, max
UDMA/100
[1.296923] ata1.00: 156301488 sectors, multi 16: LBA48
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Mihira Fernando
mihirathe...@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/17/2011 09:32 PM, lina wrote:
How do I check hard drive information of the desktop?
Thanks,
# dmesg | grep ata
among other things, it showed :
[ 1.296919] ata1.00: ATA-7: Hitachi HTS541680J9SA00,
lina wrote:
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Pete Orrallppat...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 21:27 +0800, lina wrote:
What's the best choice of the portable hard drive.
reliable. 1TB.
There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once
tried the hitachi.
Hitachi is
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:30:07 +, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:31:53 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It
will be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems
in formating the entire disk (no
On 8/17/2011 12:02 PM, lina wrote:
How do I check hard drive information of the desktop?
Thanks,
Usually the drives label will reveal all. Size, Spindle-Speed, Cache if
present (all the 750's and 1TB drives I bought have a 16MB cache on
them). YMMV though depending on what it came with. The
On 8/17/2011 12:29 PM, lina wrote:
is it normal to show something as below? something wrong with my hard drive?
[122997.499667] ata2.00: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl 0)
[122997.499681] ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl 0)
[125780.338889] ata_piix :00:1f.2: PCI INT B
Rick Pasotto (r...@niof.net on 2011-08-16 12:31 -0400):
I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It
will be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any
problems in formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file
system?
Any other considerations?
2011/8/17 Pete Orrall ppat...@gmail.com:
BTW:
Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM?
I believe IBM sold Hitachi their hard drive business.
I am just asking because I didn't have
the best experience with IBM drives, had two of them and they both broke
within 18 months(lucky for me I had quaranty
I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will
be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in
formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system?
Any other considerations?
--
Aided by a little sophistry on the words 'general
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:31:53 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will
be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in
formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system?
Well... there has to be at
On 2011-08-16 18:31 +0200, Rick Pasotto wrote:
I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will
be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in
formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system?
That is certainly possible, but a bit
Rick Pasotto:
I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will
be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in
formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system?
Not a problem per se, but personally, I would use LVM. If you don't
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:31:53PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will
be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in
formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system?
Any other
On Aug 16, 2011 2:31 PM, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote:
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:31:53PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will
be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in
formating the entire
#include hallo.h
* Camaleón [Tue, Aug 16 2011, 05:30:07PM]:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:31:53 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will
be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in
On 08/16/2011 07:11 PM, Eduard Bloch wrote:
/snip/
Also, if you plan to host specifically multimedia files you could
consider using XFS instead, I've been told is very good for such
purpose ;-)
I have been told many things, and some of them aren't something you
should believe if you want to
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote:
I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will
be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in
formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system?
Any other
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