Re: 4kbyte sectors on new disks

2012-10-27 Thread Eric Shubert
On 10/19/2012 05:07 PM, Michael Butash wrote: I was curious if anyone else is using the new 4096 byte drives vs. the old/standard-for-ever disks effectively under linux? I've bought almost exclusively hitachi drives for years, but as far as smart reports I've had 2 separate disks recently almost

Re: 4kbyte sectors on new disks

2012-10-22 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hi Michael, On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > I was curious if anyone else is using the new 4096 byte drives vs. the > old/standard-for-ever disks effectively under linux? > > I've bought almost exclusively hitachi drives for years, but as far as > smart reports I've had 2

4kbyte sectors on new disks

2012-10-19 Thread Michael Butash
I was curious if anyone else is using the new 4096 byte drives vs. the old/standard-for-ever disks effectively under linux? I've bought almost exclusively hitachi drives for years, but as far as smart reports I've had 2 separate disks recently almost immediately start throwing smart fail error