On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > [snip] >> >> This has been helpful for me. I'm glad Valmor is getting better >> results also. > [snip] > > These 4k-sector drives can be problematic when upgrading older > computers. For instance, my laptop BIOS would not boot from the toshiba > drive I mentioned earlier. However when used as an external usb drive, I > could boot gentoo. Since I have been using this drive as backup storage > I did not investigate the reason for the lower speed. I am happy to get > a factor of 8 in speed up now after you did the research :) > > Thanks for your postings.
Thanks for the info everyone, but do you understand the agony I am now suffering at the fact that all disk in my system (including all parts of my RAID5) are starting on sector 63 and I don't have sufficient free space (or free time) to repartition them? :) I am really curious if there are any gains to be made on my own system... Next time I partition I will definitely pay attention to this, and feel foolish that I didn't pay attention before. Thanks.
