[mythtv-users] Test drives with hdparm

[Alex Butcher]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Josu Lazkano wrote:

> 2011/8/12 Alex Butcher <mythlist at assursys.co.uk>:
>> On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Josu Lazkano wrote:
>>
>>> 2011/8/11 Alex Butcher <mythlist at assursys.co.uk>:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Josu Lazkano wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello list, I am having some pauses on MythTV, I read lots of post but
>>>>> I don't know why is happening. I read this morning that it will be
>>>>> about the disk transfer rate. So I check my drive.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a Western Digital Green 2TB drive:
>>>>>
>>>>> Model Number:       WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0
>>>>
>>>> Are your partitions correctly aligned for its 4K sector size?
>>
>> <http://randomtechoutburst.blogspot.com/2010/03/4k-alignment-for-disks-important.html>
>>
>> HTH,
>> Alex
>
> Hello Alex, read the text, but how could I know if my drive partition
> is aligned to 4K? I have not high techinical skills to understand this
> items.

"A little more discussion of the above partition table follows. First, note
that each and every number under the "Start" column is evenly divisible by
the magic 2048 number needed to generate the appropriate alignment for a 4K
sector drive."

> Thanks for your help.
>
> best regards.

Best Regards,
Alex