From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nez72-0003Nk-LS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:03:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41923E137D for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:03:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF76AE10FC for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:17:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.134] (helo=smtp3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NeyOo-0002B0-4t for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:17:38 +0100 Received: from 5353258a.cable.casema.nl ([83.83.37.138] helo=data.hosts.antarean.org) by smtp3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NeyOn-00049V-4m for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:17:37 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.hosts.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB7D29637 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:17:36 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.hosts.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.hosts.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LVqxlOwSF3RO for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:17:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.hosts.antarean.org [10.1.5.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.hosts.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 915D527888 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:17:36 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:17:36 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.3.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <5bdc1c8b1002070827i14f59047k39a695900ebe9889@mail.gmail.com> <201002091810.00578.Warp_7@gmx.de> <201002092213.42109.Warp_7@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <201002092213.42109.Warp_7@gmx.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002092317.36054.joost@antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1NeyOn-00049V-4m X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-2.599, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 7d6e8a8d-6d09-4364-9f72-35f7aeeca4e1 X-Archives-Hash: c5fce445e831434907ba352bbbafac11 On Tuesday 09 February 2010 22:13:39 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > When I use parted on the drives, it says (both the old external and my 2 > months old internal): > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > So no speedup for me then. :-/ > That doesn't mean a thing, I'm afraid. I have the 4KB drives (product-code and behaviour match) and parted also claims my drives have a 512B logical/physical sector size.