Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Marc Shapiro: > My main worry is the hard drive. I currently have what I think is its > older cousin, a 1 TB SATA II drive. It works perfectly and I have > always liked Seagate drives. I know that there are people out there > who have had trouble with Seagate, but there are also many who have > not. Any individual drive can be a lemon. That's not my problem. The > question that I have is that this drive seams to have Advanced Format > 4K sectors. The ad says that there are no utilities to run and no > extra integration steps. I have read enough posts here about problems > with Advanced Format to be wary of their claim, though. Does anyone > have experience with this drive, or with other Seagate drives with 4K > sectors and Seagate SmartAlign?
Install Wheezy. It aligns to partitions 1 MiB. Heck, I think even Squeeze does. But avoid disks that are using 4 KiB sectors while advertising 512 Byte sectors to the OS if those still exist. I think if you get current hardware then install Wheezy anyway. I think its not worth the trouble to install updated kernel on Squeeze to get access to Intel Sandybridge/Ivybridge or current AMD as well as USB 3 support. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- 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/201210281256.34155.mar...@lichtvoll.de
