21 May
2010
21 May
'10
7:13 p.m.
Les Mikesell wrote:
OK, I can get a full-size Seagate 750G to resync at about 40M/s which easily completes in a workday. But now what I really want to do is use a laptop size 'WD Scorpio blue' drive which claims to have the same sector count but will only sync at about a tenth of the speed. It does say it uses 'advanced format', which I think means 4k sectors. Should that make a difference? Read speed tests show about the same as the desktop drives but writes are much slower.
From what I've read, you have to 'trim' those drives much like SSD so the partition starts on a 4K boundary. I understand you can do this with parted.