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ST2000DL003 Compatibility?
Being a RNP user that is running out of space, I'm wanting to purchase new drives. I'm interested in using the Seagate ST2000DL003 2TB drives. These drives are not currently listed on the compatib...
sjw wrote: I thought it was recommended to get the 4k working properly within the NAS? As opposed to relying on the Seagate 'smartalign'? If it wasn't necessary then I could have achieved all of this by just hot-swapping the drives with no downtime?
Oops. What I should have said is that if the NAS only contains new disks the NAS automatically does the factory reset for you without you needing to manually initiate. Yes for 4k sector alignment you need to do the factory default on 4.1.7
sjw wrote:
mdgm wrote: Comparing two disks in the NAS versus one isn't a fair comparison in my view. You also need to consider the performance differences between your new and old disks.
I'm not sure. If there is a performance difference it hopefully shouldn't be too big (if comparing two redundant volumes with the same number of disks). Disk speed is a factor in performance.
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