Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-05 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:52 AM, luis Johnstone wrote: > As far as I can tell, the HitachiĀ Deskstar 7K3000 (HDS723030ALA640) uses > 512B sectors and so I presume does not suffer from such issues (because it > doesn't lie about the physical layout of sectors on-platter) Both the 7K3000 and 5K3000 d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-05 Thread Volker A. Brandt
> Deskstar 7K3000 (HDS723030ALA640) We are using these disks. They work fine with ZFS. Regards -- Volker -- Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Oracle Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH

[zfs-discuss] Compatibility of Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 with ZFS

2012-03-05 Thread luis Johnstone
Greetings, Quick question: I am about to acquire some disks for use with ZFS (currently using zfs-fuse v0.7.0). I'm aware of some 4k alignment issues with Western Digital advanced format disks. As far as I can tell, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 (HDS723030ALA640) uses 512B sectors and so I presume