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Still have good quality older sata hardware raid cards that require 512 bytes/sector. As far as I know HD manufacturers are not making native 512 bytes/sector drives any more. Some have better 512e emulation than others. Looking for some advice on which to avoid and which are recommended. Thanks. PS this is for a CentOS6 server.

...good quality older sata hardware raid cards that require 512 > bytes/sector. As far as I know HD manufacturers are not making native 512 > bytes/sector drives any more. 512n drives still exist, although they tend to be a bit smaller, 2TB or less. http://www.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/FD3F376DC2ECCE68882579D40082C393/$file/US7K4000_ds.pdf 4Kn drives are appearing now also. I don't expect these drives to be bootable except possibly by systems with UEFI firmware. It's also possible hardware RAID will reject them unless explicitly supported. http://www.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/29C9312E3B7D10CE8...

...aid cards that require 512 > > bytes/sector. As far as I know HD manufacturers are not making native 512 > > bytes/sector drives any more. > > 512n drives still exist, although they tend to be a bit smaller, 2TB or > less. > > http://www.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/FD3F376DC2ECCE68882579D40082C393/$file/US7K4000_ds.pdf > > I too noticed that HGST (now owned by WD) makes native 512n drives. That pdf states that they come in 2,3,4 TB models. (A6 in the model # represents 512n). But there are almost no reviews on these HGST native 512n drives online. > 4Kn drives are appearing now al...