How did you get two drives into RAID5 and if so, why?
On Apr 29, 2010 7:38 PM, "bardo"
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Marti Raudsepp
wrote: However, this WD disk ... Just two days ago I built an Arch NAS/HTPC with two 2TB WD Caviar Green WD20EARS (the ones with 4k-sectors). I used the latest iso from build.archlinux.org, the one that Thomas suggested, and everything went happily fine. I used parted's interactive mode to partition, followed by mdadm and mkfs.
Parted automatically warned me about an unoptimal sector alignment when I tried to put the first partition at 0 (the first partition should start at 2MB), but if you want to be extra-sure just check the the '-a optimal' parameter. About the disk reliability I can't tell much, but I already transferred some 100GB to it, and of course I had the first RAID5 build, which took a few hours and ran through the whole disk. Also, smartctl doesn't have anything bad to say. HTH, Corrado