Those WD20EARS emulate 512 bytes sectors, so yes you can freely mix and match
them with other regular 512 bytes drives. Some have reported slower
read/write speeds but nothing catastrophic.
Or you can create a new 4K aligned pool (composed of only 4K drives!) to really
take advantage of them.
On 26 January, 2011 - Benji sent me these 0,8K bytes:
Those WD20EARS emulate 512 bytes sectors, so yes you can freely mix
and match them with other regular 512 bytes drives. Some have
reported slower read/write speeds but nothing catastrophic.
For some workloads, 3x slower than it should be.
To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] mix 4k wdd drives whit 512 WD drives ?
On 26 January, 2011 - Benji sent me these 0,8K bytes:
Those WD20EARS emulate 512 bytes sectors, so yes you can freely mix
and match them with other regular 512 bytes drives. Some have
reported slower
hi can I mix som of me 4k WD drives WD20EARS whit WD20EADS or will it give
problems what do I need to do when add 4k drives so it work best if yes
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