Hello. I would like ask here for advice about HDs for Linux, because I use Squeeze and don´t want have the same problems that people that bought WD20EARS disks.
I plan buy one ST32000641AS for my desktop/server and one ST2000DL003 for use for backups purpose via an external esata box. The ST2000DL003 is 4096 bytes per sector, can this have problems with squeeze? The ST32000641AS is sata3, but will be connected to an sata2 motherboard, so, can have any problem for this in Squeeze? Mainly I choose these disks because are available at my local store Thanks for the advices. Below there is all disk specifications Specifications 2 TB1 Model Number ST32000641AS Interface Options SATA 6Gb/s NCQ Performance Transfer Rate, Max Ext (MB/s) 600 Sustained Data Rate OD (MB/s) 138 Cache (MB) 64 Average Latency (ms) 4.16 Spindle Speed (RPM) 7200 Configuration/Organization Heads/Disks 8/4 Bytes per Sector 512 Reliability/Data Integrity Load/Unload Cycles 300K Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read, Max 1 per 10E14 Annualized Failure Rate 0.34% Mean Time Between Failures (hours) 750,000 Limited Warranty (years) 5 Power Management Startup Current +12 Peak(A, ±10%) 2.8 Seek, Average (W) 7.3 Operating, Average (W) 9.23 Idle, Average (W) 6.39 Environmental Temperature (°C) Operating Nonoperating 5 to 60 –40 to 70 Shock (Gs) Operating: 2 ms Nonoperating: 2 ms 63 300 Acoustics (bels – sound power) Idle Seek 2.8 3.2 Physical Height (in/mm) 1.028/26.1 Width (in/mm) 4.00/101.6 Depth (in/mm) 5.787/146.99 Drive specification ST2000DL003 Formatted capacity (4096 bytes/sector)* 2000GB Guaranteed sectors 3,907,029,168 Heads 6 Disks 3 Bytes per sector 4096 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders 16,383 Recording density (max) 1632kb/in Track density (avg) 274ktracks/in Areal density (avg) 422Gb/in2 Spindle speed 5900 RPM Internal data transfer rate (max) 1928Mb/s Sustained data transfer rate OD 144MB/s I/O data-transfer rate 600MB/s ATA data-transfer modes supported PIO modes: 0 to 4 Multiword DMA modes: 0 to 2 Ultra DMA modes: 0 to 6 Cache buffer 64MB Height (max) 26.1mm / 1.028 in Width (max) 101.6mm / 4.0 in (± 0.010 in)
