i use WD Caviar
Green<http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=773>model
*WD20EARS (2TB SATA II*) without any problems. I installed from erik's
9atom.iso
it is quite silent, but I have no idea how to measure its speed :-(

++pac

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:07 AM, slash <slash.9fans@gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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.  it'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*
>
>