[ale] OT: WD "Advanced Format" and "Green Drives"

[Greg Freemyer]

I would avoid drives with 4KiB physical blocks for a while longer
unless you want to take extra care about alignment etc.

As an example parted only got alignment support for them in Dec. 2009
(parted 2.0 or 2.1)

My preferred distro is OpenSuse they only got that version of parted
into their factory distro source code last friday.  It is supposed to
part of the "milestone 5" release they are doing over the weekend, but
milestone 5 is effectively a alpha release of the distro.

So I would have to be using a alpha release of that distro to get true
4KiB partition alignment support.

And at this point no one has even reported testing the full alpha
release against a 4 KiB drive.

There first released version with support will be 11.3 that comes out in July.

Greg

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking about getting a large, slow hard drive [0] for backups and
> media storage. I'll be putting it in a USB enclosure. Does anyone have
> experience, good or ill, with the latest Western Digital drives that use
> 4KiB blocks and "intellipark".
>
> [0] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136513
>
> --
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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