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maik005
Aspirant
Feb 19, 2015

Expand RN104 from 4 1TB Drives

Hello,

I have an RN104 (6.2.2) with 4x1TB WD Green Devices with 512Byte/sector.

When I now exchange 2 HDDs with 2TB Drives that have 4K Sectors I need to reset the NAS for Performance?
Are the other two 1TB Drives getting also partitioned for 4K then?

Actually they all start at sector 1.

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121126 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1953525167 976762583+ ee GPT

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  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    OS6 has always had 4k sector partition alignment.

    Anyway we are using GPT so you would use GPT tools such as sgdisk not MBR ones such as sfdisk.

    # sgdisk -p /dev/sda

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