[mythtv-users] WD15EARS WD Green drives

[Kevin Ross]

On 3/13/2011 8:29 PM, Digital Hit Entertainment wrote:
> Found a great sale on the WD15EARS Green 1.5 TB drive. I saw some earlier stuff on the list about the drive and wanted to know if the latest MythTV versions have any problems with them.
>
> Any tips or things to watch out for?
>
> Thanks.

Those drives have 4K sectors, so just make sure you start your 
partitions on an even multiple of 8 sectors (the drive lies to the OS 
and reports that it has 512-byte sectors.  4096/512 is 8), and you're 
good to go.  If you don't, performance will suck.