the most important thing is to align the drive correctly, and you should use the cegate tool to do this, I know that with some of them, for them to be most efficient, they can only have one partition even though windows will allow you to create four primary partitions ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mehler" <dave.mehler@gmail.com> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Preparing a 3TB drive
Hello,
It's a Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH166.
Thanks. Dave.
On 12/26/13, Isaac <bigikemusic@gmail.com> wrote:
what brand ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mehler" <dave.mehler@gmail.com> To: "blind-sysadmins" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 10:22 AM Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Preparing a 3TB drive
Hello,
To anyone with a 3TB internal or external drive, though internal is what I'm dealing with.
This is going to be in a system running windows7sp1, which is not detecting the drive. I've read that the drive needs to be prepared outside of windows, partitioned gpt and formatted ntfs then windows will see it.
I have also read about drive alignment and that this is crucial on larger drives and also the 4k boundaries on these larger drives instead of 512 byte boundaries.
The end result is I'm a little confused. The primary goal of these drives are going to be Windows data storage drives, with probably some Linux systems talking to them as well again for data storage.
I want to ensure that all operating systems can see them, that they are properly aligned, and have the correct 4k boundaries set.
What all do you use for this?
Thanks. Dave.
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