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Gouge
Sep 18, 2011Aspirant
4k Sector Confirmation
ReadyNAS Duo was running 2x1TB Hitachi HD's on FW 4.17. I removed these and installed a 2TB WD20EARX drive and let it install. I then performed a firmware update to 4.18 followed by a factory reset ...
mdgm-ntgr
Sep 19, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
If you looked at my article you would see that your partitions are 4k sector aligned. Do note that the log zip file is designed to be read by NetGear tech support. The utility used to generate partition.log measures 1 sector as 512-bytes (this is a good idea as if they used a larger unit non 4k sector aligned disks would have decimals for start sectors in the log) but as 4k (4096) = 8 * 512, you can see that the disks are 4k sector aligned as the start sectors are divisible by 8.
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