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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 08:53:49 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGVxGvqL7DCwXnpOa8Arc2-7hF9St2=Le=w0=oOqn7DTsg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120304213447.75fa14c4@weird.wonkology.org>

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On Mar 5, 2012 3:37 AM, "Alex Schuster" <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
>
> Grant writes:
>
> > Just to confirm, starting at block 2048 is OK?
>
> Yes, if it's divisible by 8, it's okay. That's because 512 * 8 = 4096, so
> every 8th 512-byte block starts on a 4096 block boundary.
>
> 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
>
>        Wonko
>

Your URL got munged there, I can't download the pdf.

Rgds,

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-05  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-02  2:12 [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook Grant
2012-03-02  8:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-02 20:29   ` Grant
2012-03-02 23:03     ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-02 23:35       ` Grant
2012-03-02 23:05 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-03-02 23:39   ` Grant
2012-03-03 17:50     ` Grant
2012-03-03 18:13       ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-03 18:15         ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-03 18:22           ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-03 18:24             ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-03 20:12         ` Joshua Murphy
2012-03-04 20:12           ` Grant
2012-03-04 20:34             ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-05  1:53               ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2012-03-05 13:40                 ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-05  1:58             ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-04 20:02         ` Grant
2012-03-04 20:06           ` Grant
2012-03-04 21:09         ` Grant
2012-03-04 21:45           ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-04 21:56             ` Grant
2012-03-04 22:07               ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-04 22:36                 ` Grant
2012-03-05  2:19                   ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-05  2:12                 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-05  2:06               ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-05 21:41                 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-05 16:00               ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-05 16:33                 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-05 20:17                   ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-05 21:33                 ` Joshua Murphy

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