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.