On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 02:31:15PM +1000, CaT wrote: > > I wont be buying more of these if I can avoid it. I'd rather a 4k drive > that says it's a 4k drive and get on with life.
Well, I wonder what the manufacturers thinking behind lieing about the sector size is. It only leads to problems --- everyone who bought a disk like that and partitions it as usual should just exchange it if permance testing shows poor performance until they get one that just works. And how do RAID controllers handle such disks? They present the disks transparently to the OS, and if they can't figure out that a 4k alignment is required, you can only return the disks when the performance is poor ... This problem has greatly contributed to my decision to buy one or two more 500GB disks (same model as the others I have) and to convert the RAID-1 to a RAID-5, rather than buying two 2TB disks to set up another RAID-1. It's also a lot cheaper: Two more disks will triple the capacity for less than half the price of one 2TB disk, and they are somewhat likely to be faster. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100704153026.ge12...@yun.yagibdah.de