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From: Nicolas Bercher <nbercher@yahoo.fr>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] [RQ:] SATA HD 2+ TB native recommendations
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:44:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5124D328.8090906@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM6ozu68fmG=DR9DDdB7JK9HDevDJwBKDJG6s84+SpmYETu9kA@mail.gmail.com>

On 20/02/2013 10:37, Peter A. Cejchan wrote:
> Hi, folks,
>
> I am about to buy an internal HD for my native Plan9 box.
> I need 2TB or more, can anyone recommend me a model that is tested to work?
> Native, not p9p.
>
> Also, can anyone recommend a hi-res video card, SXGA+ or better, 24-bit
> depth?
> I am aware of the "Supported PC Hardware" page, of course, however, I would
> appreciate your personal experience.
>
> Thanks, best regards,
> ++pac
>

On my side, I use WD Green Caviar 1.5TB HDD although I do not recommend
them for multiple reasons (they report 512B physical blocks size
instead of 4k, they fail or slow down a lot when copying a full disk to
another one, at once).

Nicolas



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-20 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-20  9:37 Peter A. Cejchan
2013-02-20 10:26 ` David du Colombier
2013-02-20 10:45   ` Peter A. Cejchan
2013-02-20 11:22     ` David du Colombier
2013-02-20 13:04       ` dexen deVries
2013-02-20 16:57   ` [9fans] arcnet steve
2013-02-20 17:34     ` Matthew Veety
2013-02-21  6:22     ` lucio
2013-02-21  9:19       ` Steve Simon
2013-02-21 12:54         ` hiro
2013-02-21 14:16           ` Charles Forsyth
2013-02-21 15:09             ` David Leimbach
2013-02-21 17:39           ` lucio
2013-02-21 18:44             ` erik quanstrom
2013-02-21 19:26               ` Jeff Sickel
2013-02-21 19:32                 ` Calvin Morrison
2013-02-21 19:39                   ` hiro
2013-02-21 19:44                     ` Calvin Morrison
2013-02-21 17:36         ` lucio
2013-02-21 21:11           ` steve
2013-02-20 13:44 ` Nicolas Bercher [this message]
2013-02-20 14:04 ` [9fans] [RQ:] SATA HD 2+ TB native recommendations erik quanstrom
2013-02-20 21:27   ` Nicolas Bercher
2013-02-20 21:43     ` erik quanstrom

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