[mythtv-users] 1TB+ drive recommendation?

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com> wrote:
> Looking to make some changes between BE/FE boxes and would like to add a
> 1TB+, looking at a few different ones I'd appreciate feedback from y'all who
> may have any experience with any of these:
>
> Samsung Spinpoint F3EG 1TB:
> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152202
> Seagate Barracuda 1TB:
> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148433
> WD 1.5TB Green:
> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136351
> Samsung F2 1.5TB:
> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152175
> ^^ These last two are only ~$15 more for another 500GB... yikes how do I
> resist!
>
> Unless any of the above are highly recommended, the WD100FALS looks like the
> go-to drive??
> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284
>
> Thanks a lot for any help
> Bob
>

I have a WD 1T Drive and like it a lot. It's fast and quiet.

Note that the WD 1t+ Drives are all using 4K sectors so make sure you
start your partitions on 8 sector boundaries or you'll pay dearly in
terms of speed. All the tools still assume the sectors are 512B which
isn't true anymore.

Frankly, I've started wasting a bit of space on all my drive and start
my sectors on boundaries of 1000 so I lose 512KB but it makes reading
the tables easy and reminds me about this issue. And what's 512KB out
of 1TB anyway? ;-)

Cheers,
Mark