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 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 entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system? >> > >> > Any other considerations? >> >> These days, though with current motherboards and SATA controllers, >> current releases of Debian with 2.6 kernels,ext4, and 64-bit operating >> system? Goddess only knows how large of a disk you can manage. Try it >> with your system and let us know!!!!! > > It should always work in some form, though you might need to > restrict its size with a jumper or force 512 byte sectors if you > see problems. > > One odd problem I came across when I installed a pair of WD20EARS > 2.0GB discs is that while they are 4KiB sector drives, they tell the > opearating system that their native sector size is 512B, i.e. they > lie. Who knows why?--presumably so it's backward compatible or > something, but it does mean when partitioning you need to manually > partition on 4KiB boundaries or else you'll suffer from poor > performance. Hopefully in the future they will tell the truth so > that all the tools just work. > > I worked around this by partitioning using GPT and telling the > tool (parted IIRC) to use units of 4KiB to ensure correct partition > alignment. It's all working nicely so far with LVM and/or Btrfs on > top. > > > Regards, > Roger > > -- > .''`. Roger Leigh > : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ > `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ > `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAk5LtIcACgkQVcFcaSW/uEheRACfYUUxYX+agDHit8CazIkrNbUX > cS4An1UC4RKJ3PR/bBmOlh1e/S3uxJWz > =A1Wr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Best Regards, lina -- 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/CAG9cJmkOQhG+RGg=v9l95jz1x9jh2-nyah+blbdlg3rv+k2...@mail.gmail.com