> Hi, folks, > > I am about to buy an internal HD for my native Plan9 box. > I need 2TB or more, can anyone recommend me a model that is tested to work? > Native, not p9p.
i'm not going to recommend any drives. but i haven't heard any complaints about segate, western digital or hitachi *enterprise* drives in a while. this doesn't mean other drives aren't good. i just know nothing about 'em. here are some example of drives i might look at were i looking for one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148825 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236352 it's important to match the product code. one letter difference in WD2000FYYZ and you might have a bad drive. also the "video" drives really are special purpose drives. > On my side, I use WD Green Caviar 1.5TB HDD although I do not recommend > them for multiple reasons (they report 512B physical blocks size > instead of 4k, they fail or slow down a lot when copying a full disk to > another one, at once). 4k drives only work in 9atom. and they're not recommended as a boot drive. i've found it hard to tell, even reading the data sheets if a drive is 512 or 4k. but many drives have the lba number on the sticker. and for example 3907029168 corresponds to 512-byte sectors, 2T. 3907029168*512/1000^4 = 2.0 - erik
