ashift

  1. N

    Help regarding different sector drives (512 vs 4k)

    Hi, I recently upgraded my zpool2 from (6 x) 2TB drives to HGST 4TB SAS HUS726040ALS214, unfortunately, a couple of the drives I ordered was showing issues, and the seller ran out of them before I could get replacements (he refunded me for the drives). Therefore I ordered a couple of HGST...
  2. TheBloke

    ZFS: Mixture of 4k/512 drives, best ashift to use? (Solaris 11.3)

    Hey all I am in the process of upgrading the storage on my home file server, which runs Solaris 11.3 on an Ivy Bridge i5-3550 (H77 chipset) with 32GB of RAM, using a mixture of storage controllers : 8 ports from an LSI 9211-8i; 6 ports from the onboard H77 controller and up to another 8 ports...