From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1dc3dbdc0c9e0ecbc86047c58e0a2d33@hamnavoe.com> <6c0a6fdef3589e5cb13618f19d9ac9fc@chula.quanstro.net> <27cbf24b3414cf47835e99ecbbd97e6d@brasstown.quanstro.net> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:35:49 +0200 Message-ID: From: "Peter A. Cejchan" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec520e685a292d304ae9c5fd3 Subject: Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk Topicbox-Message-UUID: 33eeb246-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --bcaec520e685a292d304ae9c5fd3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 i use WD Caviar Greenmodel *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 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* > > --bcaec520e685a292d304ae9c5fd3 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable i use WD Caviar Green model WD= 20EARS (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, sla= sh <slash.9fa= ns@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. =C2=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*


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