Re: Recommendation for buy Hardware

2011-01-28 Thread GeraldCC
On Friday, January 28, 2011 04:24:27 pm Alfonso Ruiz wrote: Hello. I would like ask a recommendation about HDs for Linux, because I use Squeeze and don´t want have the same problems that people that bought WD20EARS disks, my budget is limited. I plan buy one ST32000641AS for my

Re: Recommendation for buy Hardware

2011-01-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Alfonso Ruiz wrote: The ST2000DL003 is 4096 bytes per sector, can this have problems with squeeze? Squeeze tries to align everything to 1MB boundaries, so it shouldn't cause problems. OTOH, I doubt anyone tested it with 4096/4096 disks, so make sure the HD is just 512/4096

Re: Recommendation for buy Hardware

2011-01-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Alfonso Ruiz wrote: The ST2000DL003 is 4096 bytes per sector, can this have problems with squeeze? Squeeze tries to align everything to 1MB boundaries, so it shouldn't cause problems. Do you refer to the installer only, or does that apply

Re: Recommendation for buy Hardware

2011-01-28 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 28. 01. 2011 09:40:42 je GeraldCC napisal(a): On Friday, January 28, 2011 04:24:27 pm Alfonso Ruiz wrote: Hello. I would like ask a recommendation about HDs for Linux, because I use Squeeze and don´t want have the same problems that people that bought WD20EARS disks, my budget is

Re: Recommendation for buy Hardware

2011-01-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Jochen Schulz wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Alfonso Ruiz wrote: The ST2000DL003 is 4096 bytes per sector, can this have problems with squeeze? Squeeze tries to align everything to 1MB boundaries, so it shouldn't cause problems. Do

Re: Recommendation for buy Hardware

2011-01-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Jochen Schulz wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Alfonso Ruiz wrote: The ST2000DL003 is 4096 bytes per sector, can this have problems with squeeze? Squeeze tries to align

Re: Recommendation for buy Hardware

2011-01-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Jochen Schulz wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: Squeeze tries to align everything to 1MB boundaries, so it shouldn't cause problems. Do you refer to the installer only, or does that apply to the usual tools (parted/cfdisk, LVM,

Recommendation for buy Hardware

2011-01-27 Thread Alfonso Ruiz
Hello. I would like ask a recommendation about HDs for Linux, because I use Squeeze and don´t want have the same problems that people that bought WD20EARS disks, my budget is limited. I plan buy one ST32000641AS for my desktop/server and one ST2000DL003 for use for backups purpose via an