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 >> tried the hitachi. >> actually, there are only three brands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive#Manufacturers the only thing you're buying when you pick someone else might be different support / warranty and maybe partitioning / diagnostics software. personally, i just go to google, amazon, buy.com, and newegg and get whatever is cheapest. then i run it through a few dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/disk (with different block sizes). if it lives through that, i format it and put it in service. i've rma'd a number of disks and a good 75% of them were laptop drives, another 15% were heavily used in a san, 5% was me being stupid, and another 5% were full sized disks under normal use. fwiw >> 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----- >>> >>> >> >> > Hi, > > I recommend using Western Digital, I have those drives in all of my pc's > have one 80 GB and that one is from the days when 80 GB drives, where the > most that you could get, and its still working great. 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 ). > > Cheers, > > Dejan > > > -- > 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/4e4bcdef.8020...@gmail.com > > -- 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/CAH_OBif-ow81n]QhJK�Tr5Wvy_mb_PM7cg=ezn5waex...@mail.gmail.com