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Subject: Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk
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> the way to interpret this information is you may use 512
> byte sectors if you really want to suffer terrible performance
> (usually 1/3 the normal performance for reasonablly random
> workloads.)

That doesn't sound tempting at all. I am still within Amazon's return
window. Can anyone recommend a 2 TB SATA drive that works on our
favorite operating system out of the box at full speed? If it's quiet
and cheap, all the better.

> let me think a bit about the correct solutions to this. =A0it's clear
> to me that we just can't assume 512-byte sectors any more.

I knew Plan 9 is picky about hardware, but a hard disk? *sigh*