From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] [RQ:] SATA HD 2+ TB native recommendations
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:04:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c87a9fc8381e26e65391c302943c2fa2@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM6ozu68fmG=DR9DDdB7JK9HDevDJwBKDJG6s84+SpmYETu9kA@mail.gmail.com>
> 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.
i'm not going to recommend any drives. but i haven't
heard any complaints about segate, western digital or
hitachi *enterprise* drives in a while. this doesn't mean
other drives aren't good. i just know nothing about 'em.
here are some example of drives i might look at were i
looking for one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148825
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236352
it's important to match the product code. one letter difference in
WD2000FYYZ and you might have a bad drive. also the
"video" drives really are special purpose drives.
> 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).
4k drives only work in 9atom. and they're not recommended
as a boot drive.
i've found it hard to tell, even reading the data sheets if a drive
is 512 or 4k. but many drives have the lba number on the sticker. and
for example 3907029168 corresponds to 512-byte sectors, 2T.
3907029168*512/1000^4 = 2.0
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-20 14:04 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 ` [9fans] [RQ:] SATA HD 2+ TB native recommendations Nicolas Bercher
2013-02-20 14:04 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2013-02-20 21:27 ` Nicolas Bercher
2013-02-20 21:43 ` erik quanstrom
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