On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Chris Brennan <xa...@xaerolimit.net> wrote: > On 8/17/2011 10:19 AM, Dejan Ribič wrote: >> Dne 17.8.2011 15:27, piše lina: >>> What's the best choice of the portable hard drive. >>> reliable. 1TB. >>> >>> There are many brands, I don't know which one is reliable. I once >>> tried the hitachi. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Roger Leigh<rle...@codelibre.net> >>> wrote: >>>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:51:44PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Rick Pasotto<r...@niof.net> wrote: >>>>>> I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It >>>>>> will >>>>>> be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in >>>>>> formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system? >>>>>> >>>>>> Any other considerations? >>>>> These days, though with current motherboards and SATA controllers, >>>>> current releases of Debian with 2.6 kernels,ext4, and 64-bit operating >>>>> system? Goddess only knows how large of a disk you can manage. Try it >>>>> with your system and let us know!!!!! >>>> It should always work in some form, though you might need to >>>> restrict its size with a jumper or force 512 byte sectors if you >>>> see problems. >>>> >>>> One odd problem I came across when I installed a pair of WD20EARS >>>> 2.0GB discs is that while they are 4KiB sector drives, they tell the >>>> opearating system that their native sector size is 512B, i.e. they >>>> lie. Who knows why?--presumably so it's backward compatible or >>>> something, but it does mean when partitioning you need to manually >>>> partition on 4KiB boundaries or else you'll suffer from poor >>>> performance. Hopefully in the future they will tell the truth so >>>> that all the tools just work. >>>> >>>> I worked around this by partitioning using GPT and telling the >>>> tool (parted IIRC) to use units of 4KiB to ensure correct partition >>>> alignment. It's all working nicely so far with LVM and/or Btrfs on >>>> top. >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Roger >>>> >>>> -- >>>> .''`. Roger Leigh >>>> : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ >>>> `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? >>>> http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ >>>> `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. >>>> >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) >>>> >>>> iEYEARECAAYFAk5LtIcACgkQVcFcaSW/uEheRACfYUUxYX+agDHit8CazIkrNbUX >>>> cS4An1UC4RKJ3PR/bBmOlh1e/S3uxJWz >>>> =A1Wr >>>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> Hi, >> >> I recommend using Western Digital, I have those drives in all of my >> pc's have one 80 GB and that one is from the days when 80 GB drives, >> where the most that you could get, and its still working great. BTW: >> Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM? I am just asking because I didn't have >> the best experience with IBM drives, had two of them and they both broke >> within 18 months(lucky for me I had quaranty for them :D ). >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dejan >> >> > > See, I'm the opposite of all of these suggestions. I would never > recommend Hitachi/IBM or Western Digital. I've had repeatedly poor > experiences with both. > > I bought 2 80GB IBM DeskStar's and they fried the machine with in 48 > hours, upon inspected the drives had some how caught fire, the fire > crated a short which cooked everything into something looking like burnt > bacon. Luckily I was close by and the fire didn't spread, but it did > trip the breaker in my apartment. > > I used to use WD's back when the biggest you could get was 8GB, once > they broke the 10GB-15GB barriers is when I started to have repeated > failures on drives, for stupidly unexplained reasons too. I just came to > the point where I failed to see their value vs application (daily > desktop use.) > > I had someone who absolutely insisted on Hitachi drives, started out > with a 40GB drive, DoA, replaced it *THREE* times, directly from the > factory, all three were DoA. Now we're up to 4 DoA Drives, Hatachi/IBM > knew my name and dreaded my calls. Finally they got fed up with me and > next-day'd 4 of their latest model drives, hot off the assembly line > they swore. When the drives arrived, I saw that they were 80GB 10K RPM > drives. They worked great once I had the system assembled. A week later, > I get a phone call that the machine can't boot. At first I thought it > was the motherboad, so I brought an old 20GB Seagate drive I had laying > around with me, plugged the Seagate in and the bios found the drive > instantly. Whereas the Hitachi's would cause the bios to hang for > upwards of 10 minutes before the drives would fail. I let the client > keep the 20GB drive as it suited his needs anyway and took the dead > drives with me. When I got home, I tested each drive and sure enough, > they were absolutely dead, they refused to spin up. Returned them to > IBM/Hitachi and for a refund that I never got, never got paid for the > original 40GB drive which was $250 at the time. On the plus side, that > 20GB Seagate drive is still running, 9 years later as the FTP Storage > drive for that office's intranet. > > Ever since the above incident I've used Seagate drives, no matter the > application, I will save up what I need or figure the cost of the > Seagate's I needed for the job at hand. I've got a few more 20's laying > around, some still in use all the way up to 4x1TB drives in my desktop. > never had any serious problems with any of them. On the rare chance that > I did, Seagate was quick to get me a new drive ASAP. > > P.S. I have never heard of GoFlex for a hard-drive manufacturer ... > toddles off to google ... ahh I see, GoFlex is Seagates line of external > drives (I don't use them so I had no idea...)
Yeah. Here I meant external hard drive. (Actually I have no idea about what's kind of driver I used in desktop or laptop). The external drives mainly plan to store some data which won't be visited often, kind of back up. 500 GB + 500 GB is much more safer (for data storage) than all in one 1TB drive? Okay, one thing I won't consider the HITACHI, so mainly seageat. Thanks again, > > -- >> Chris Brennan >> -- >> A: Yes. >> >Q: Are you sure? >> >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >> >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? >> http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ >> GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- Best Regards, lina -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cag9cjmm_vuje0trrqm+a-exhhucob9mtqov3n+rkyncs31s...@mail.gmail.com
