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...> Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical I don't get a "Sector Size" line. smartctl version 5.38 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD10EZEX-60M2NA0 Serial Number: WD-WCC3F6AX0119 Firmware Version: 03.01A03 User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 9 ATA Standard is: Not recognized. Minor revision code: 0x1f Local Time is: Wed Aug 5 13:09:16 2015...

...: 512 bytes Another one is: # parted -l /dev/hdg | grep -i sector I'm willing to bet that physical sector size is 4096 bytes > Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > Device Model: WDC WD10EZEX-60M2NA0 I looked this up and found this: http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-771436.pdf That lists the 1TB as being advanced format. If that's the correct spec sheet then the next question is what is the workload for this drive? If it's just a boot drive and performance is no...

On 8/5/2015 12:34 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: >> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. > I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte > physical sectors, but it's worth confirming you don't have such a > drive because the current partition