Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:47:26 -0700 From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: WD Advanced Format: do I need to do something special? Message-ID: <4E4CD19E.5070108@rawbw.com>
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WD has sectors of the size 4kB in their latest hard drives, which is different from the traditional 512B. http://www.wdc.com/advformat http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5655 These articles assert that something special should be done in OS to enable high performance of such drives. For ex. WD recommends to install some latest drivers of particular version. But what about FreeBSD? Should it be configured in some special way too for these drive to perform well? Is it aware of 4kB sector size? Yuri
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