Re: ZFS disk question

In reply to: joe mcguckin : "ZFS disk question"
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From: Alan Somers <asomers_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:21:43 UTC

You can't switch them to 4kn, but you don't need to.  ZFS works just
fine with 512e disks.  It will always respect the 4k physical sectors.

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 2:07 PM joe mcguckin <joe@via.net> wrote:
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> Looking around for drives, the most common are the 512e drives. Can these drives (Specifically the Toshiba and Seagate Exos) drives operate in 4Kn mode also? I notice the manufacturers offer a seperate p/n for 512e mode and 4Kn mode drives. Do they need to be reformatted?
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