> the way to interpret this information is you may use 512 > byte sectors if you really want to suffer terrible performance > (usually 1/3 the normal performance for reasonablly random > workloads.)
That doesn't sound tempting at all. I am still within Amazon's return window. Can anyone recommend a 2 TB SATA drive that works on our favorite operating system out of the box at full speed? If it's quiet and cheap, all the better. > let me think a bit about the correct solutions to this. it's clear > to me that we just can't assume 512-byte sectors any more. I knew Plan 9 is picky about hardware, but a hard disk? *sigh*
