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 1S4YAh-0005w9-Rq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:41:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E13FBE071D; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 13:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3597FE0662 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 13:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-84-44-209-175.netcologne.de [84.44.209.175]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6AF44DC04D for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 14:40:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 14:40:41 +0100 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook Message-ID: <20120305144041.049dd55b@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20120304213447.75fa14c4@weird.wonkology.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cb943e79-a6a2-4d6e-9ae1-51f37272bad3 X-Archives-Hash: b8427bca80764078de399c0641105f0e Pandu Poluan writes: > On Mar 5, 2012 3:37 AM, "Alex Schuster" wrote: > > Now I have a related question: My new seagate Barracuda > > Green 2TB ST2000DL003-9VT166 drive has 4096 bytes per sector, but uses > > something that is called SmartAlign(TM) [*]. Seagate says that there > > are no performance impacts even when the partitions are misaligned. > > This would be good, because I completely forgot about this when > > creating partitions, and I would like to keep it as it is now. Has > > anyone heard about this? Can I trust Seagate that what they say is > > correct? > > > > [*] > > www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/de.../mb6101_smartalign_technology_faq.pdf > Your URL got munged there, I can't download the pdf. Argh, how did that happen? I just copied from Firefox' address bar. And it was in German anyway. Sorry. But somehow interesting, seems I sometimes don't even notice which language a text is written in. Here is the English version: http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/tp615_smartalign_for_af_4k.pdf This link also has some information, and the other one explains what the problem with a 4K sector size is. But beware, this may well be Seagate propaganda. http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2010/06/the-digital-den/advanced-format-drives-with-smartalign/ http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2010/03/the-digital-den/4k-sector-hard-drive-primer/ Wonko