On 12/21/2010 11:55 AM, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:01:09 -0600 Larry Finger
wrote: As this drive was my second WD Green 1 TB drive, I did not expect any problems, thus I installed, partitioned, and formatted it normally. Only when the performance took a major hit did I discover the nuances of the model number.
Now you're scaring me. Which WD Green 1TB drives are 4k and which are old-fashioned?
I have a WD10EADS and it has only one partition on it:
server:~ # parted /dev/sdc print Model: ATA WDC WD10EADS-00L (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32,3kB 1000GB 1000GB primary xfs type=83
I did not notice a major performance problem until now...
The device with 4KB sectors: WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1. The device with 512B sectors: WDC WD10EADS-00L5B1. Your EADS is OK. If you had the problem, you would notice it. On mine, there would be a 30+ second pause when doing the final linking of modules during a kernel build while the drive caught up with all those split-sector writes. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org