On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 20:52 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote: > has anyone installed arch on one of these drives? thinking about > buying a pair and running them mirrored... but not sure if everything > will be working optimal. note: since I'll have to migrate off an > existing drive I can use the tools installed on that to partition it > first. Is there anything I should know first? You will have to align partitions on a 4K boundary, performance will be miserable without that. I think parted is the best tool to do partitioning in this case, as parted supports aligning.
