WDC advanced format drives & linux

Mad Professor · 13 Jan 2011 at 08:52

Good Morning All.

I have been running WDC Green, Advanced format drives, in my windows 7 pc without any problems, but I am now looking at buying some for my Ubuntu 10.10 linux server.

A quick search on google seems to show pepole having performace problems, ect.

So I just want to ask if anyone here is using any of the WDC Advanced format drives on linux and how they are finding them.

Thanks for your time.

Best Regards.

Mad Professor · 15 Jan 2011 at 09:03

Oh no replies yet.

Do we not have any linux users on here?

Zarf · 15 Jan 2011 at 09:13

http://www.linuxconfig.org/linux-wd-ears-advanced-format

Mad Professor · 29 Jan 2011 at 18:37

Just a quick report.

I can confirm that I have setup a WDC WD15EARS fully up and running in Ubuntu 10.10 Server 64Bit.

I just made sure that the kernels and the fdisk program where fully upto date.

Ran the fdisk program, it detected that it was an Advanced Format Drive, and set it up.

I have not done any hard drive speed tests within the linux box, but I can send files from my windows pc to the linux box via lan at around 60-70MB/s.