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...ck on 2009-06-04 was the only mention I've seen and "Advanced Format" can't be seen anywhere in the list archives, I felt it worthwhile to mention "it's here", at least to some extent. In WD's whitepaper (PDF available by selecting language at http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/?id=216&type=87), it does, however, talk about performing in-drive emulation from 512B to 4096B sectors and that they have a utility (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/) to "realign" for "performance" (still can't be certain what this really means; sa...

I see a really good price, and better for quantity, for 3TB drives. Now, I've been down on WD for a couple of years, since I found that they'd protected certain h/d parms from being changed (like TLER). The ones I'm looking at are the Red, which seems to be a new color (at least to me), and one technical review I've read says that they're intended for NAS, etc, and you can

...ev/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 not a consideration then you can leave it alone, the drive firmwar...

On 8/5/2015 1:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: >> How would I go about pointing it at the partition? >> >> What I am currently doing is this: >> device (hd0) /dev/hdg >> root (hd0,0) >> setup (hd0) > > setup (hd1,0) > > It's hd1 if your device map is correct and

According to various posts the LSI SAS3081E-R seems to work well with OpenSolaris. But I''ve got pretty chilled-out from my recent problems with Areca-1680''s. Could anyone please confirm that the LSI SAS3081E-R works well ? Is hotplug supported ? Anything else I should know before buying one of these cards ? Thanks, Arnaud