[mythtv-users] Need advice re: expand/replacement storage

[jedi]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 02:49:17PM -0500, Joseph Fry wrote:
> > > > AFAIK, SATA is all interoperable - the end of each link negotiate for
> > the highest speed they both support and run at that. If the drive does
> > 6Gbps and your controller is limited to 3Gbps, then they will negotiate and
> > run at 3.
> > > >> >  I am considering adding a 2TB WD disk to my system (WD2002FAEX).
> > > > Then the partitioning problems do not apply. As already mentioned, you
> > should start your partitions at a multiple of 8 'sectors', while fdisk will
> > default to starting at 63. Since I think all large drives now use 4k
> > sectors on the disk, such a mislignment affects performance.
> > > > -- Simon Hobson
> > > For what it's worth, I recently replaced my WD 2TB drive with another WD
> > > 2TB drive (WDC WD2003FYYS-02W0B1) and it has 512 byte sectors.  I used
> > > fdisk to partition it (one partition).  The previous 2TB drives that
> > > this replaced had failed (WD2001FASS-00U0B0 and WD2001FASS-00W2B0).
> > >
> > > Jay
> > >
> > AFAIK fdisk does not support GPT partitioning & does not default to
> > correct alignment.
> 
> 
> > The stock disk tools in *buntu 12.04 are not up to the job either.
> > It is easy enough to build latest stable "gparted" from source on Ubuntu
> > 12.04 & 10.04.
> >
> 
> sudo apt-get install gdisk.  No need to build gparted.

...you beat me to it. 

I use gdisk for my really-large drives in Ubuntu. Works like a charm.

[deletia]

    I have a number of Seagate 3TB drives. I also have various drives
in other sizes (1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB).