[OmniOS-discuss] HGST 7K6000 for a RAIDZ2 pool

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Marts,

Yesterday Warren Marts wrote:

> At some point sourcing true 512 B/sector disks will get more difficult and
> expensive - unless you knew this filesystem is likely to see lots of small
> writes and performance or space efficiency are critical I'd lean to the 4KB
> sector disks.

Amazingly, the new He6 drives from HGST only seem to exist in an
512n variant ... while the also new He8 drives only come in 4Kn and
512e types ...


> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Richard Elling <
> richard.elling at richardelling.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > > On Feb 25, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
> > >
> > > experts!
> > >
> > > If you were to buy 6TB disks for a RAIDZ2 Pool, would you go for
> > > 512n like in the olden days, or use the new 4Kn.
> > >
> > > I know ZFS can deal with both ...
> > >
> > > So what would be your choice, and WHY?
> >
> > Better yet, what would be your requirements, then your choice, then why?
> >  -- richard
> >
> > >
> > > cheers
> > > tobi
> > >
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