On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx> 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? I had one of these disks a few months ago and found that the only way I could get my partitions truly aligned was using parted and calculating the sector numbers/offsets MANUALLY (WTF!) Every other Linux partitioning tool aligns partitions to the 63-sector boundary and there's no way to avoid that. However, this WD disk crashed after barely 3 days of operation and I replaced it with a normal 512-byte sector Seagate. See also: http://lwn.net/Articles/322777/ Regards, Marti
