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Starting to set up my microserver to take over as my NAS. Just got a 2TB caviar green drive and starting to install it.
I'm running ubuntu server on the userver with that installed on the 250GB drive (a seagate baracuda) that came with it and adding the new 2TB drive for data only.
1) I know about the load cycle issue and have a CD with wdidle3 waiting - though as the disk is only going to be used for data an not the OS (so won't suffer the problems of the disk head being constantly unload/loaded due to linux log files etc). I'll monitor it with smartctl over first week or so and if it starts to climb too much I'll set the unload timeout to 300s
2) I'm using Ubuntu server 12.04 and when partitioning disk it defaulted to starting partion at "sector" 2048 ... I'm assuming that means its hanlding the alignment issue from the 4k physical sector size.
3) what filesystem is most suitable to use - or does it matter! I was following one set of instructions from the web and it went for ext4 while when I then checked something in another page it was using ext3. Any reason why not to stick with the ext4 I've already formatted to?
Thanks
I'm running ubuntu server on the userver with that installed on the 250GB drive (a seagate baracuda) that came with it and adding the new 2TB drive for data only.
1) I know about the load cycle issue and have a CD with wdidle3 waiting - though as the disk is only going to be used for data an not the OS (so won't suffer the problems of the disk head being constantly unload/loaded due to linux log files etc). I'll monitor it with smartctl over first week or so and if it starts to climb too much I'll set the unload timeout to 300s
2) I'm using Ubuntu server 12.04 and when partitioning disk it defaulted to starting partion at "sector" 2048 ... I'm assuming that means its hanlding the alignment issue from the 4k physical sector size.
3) what filesystem is most suitable to use - or does it matter! I was following one set of instructions from the web and it went for ext4 while when I then checked something in another page it was using ext3. Any reason why not to stick with the ext4 I've already formatted to?
Thanks