[mythtvnz] System freezes thrashing HDD

[Steve Holdoway]

On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 00:13 +1200, Steven Ellis wrote:

> > 
> > Take a look at this link:
> > 
> > http://www.greengecko.co.nz/node/21
> > 
> > "WD Green disks are formatted with 4096 byte blocks, not the usual
> > 512.
> > While this shouldn't be a problem, it doesn't report this fact
> > properly.
> > Also, if partitions aren't actually created on a 4k boundary, then
> > performance slows to a crawl."
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> Currently only the 2TB models have 4096 byte blocks so this is
> unlikely.

This statement is incorrect, as my example of a 1TB disk shows. It's (at
least - there may be others) the 'R' of EARS in the part number that
identifies disks with 4KB blocks.

Steve

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