i use <a href="http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=773"><span class="l">WD Caviar Green</span></a> model <span class="s"><b>WD20EARS (2TB SATA II</b></span>) without any problems. I installed from erik&#39;s 9atom.iso<br>
it is quite silent, but I have no idea how to measure its speed :-(<br><br>++pac<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:07 AM, slash <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:slash.9fans@gmail.com">slash.9fans@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">&gt; the way to interpret this information is you may use 512<br>
&gt; byte sectors if you really want to suffer terrible performance<br>
&gt; (usually 1/3 the normal performance for reasonablly random<br>
&gt; workloads.)<br>
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</div>That doesn&#39;t sound tempting at all. I am still within Amazon&#39;s return<br>
window. Can anyone recommend a 2 TB SATA drive that works on our<br>
favorite operating system out of the box at full speed? If it&#39;s quiet<br>
and cheap, all the better.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
&gt; let me think a bit about the correct solutions to this.  it&#39;s clear<br>
&gt; to me that we just can&#39;t assume 512-byte sectors any more.<br>
<br>
</div>I knew Plan 9 is picky about hardware, but a hard disk? *sigh*<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>