[mythtv-users] 1TB+ drive recommendation?

[Brian Phillips]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> 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.   

Are you sure?  The EADS packages continues to lack the gigantic warning
paragraph mentioning the WD Align tool and Advanced Format.  I think only
the EARS drives have that paragraph on their label.

It seems to me EADS continues to use 512 byte sectors.  Why would they not
put a warning about "advanced format drives"?  Even the AV-GP drive is
missing it.  I'm assuming lack of paragraph means no 4k sectors.

As for the original question, I'll be getting a WD Green drive for my next
drive.  My seagates (1.5 TB and 500 GB) have been firmware issue free, but
they are so blazing hot at 7200 rpm that one of them registered a SMART high
of 61 C.  That's the very top of the spec, but still much hotter than I'd
like.

If you have sufficient cooling, your options are wide open (WD Black,
Seagate 7200.12, etc) but if you're packing your backend drives into a
mini-tower case, it's probably best to get a cooler drive in the WD Green.

Brian