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March 18th 17, 05:03 PM
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Format of "Enterprise" drives
As I look for a reliable 4TB drive to replace some older drives in an
older machine (SB850 controller), I see that some, especially Seagate, come in a variety of formats: 4Kn, 512e, 512n. Which of these would work in that machine? -- presumably NOT the 4Kn, but maybe I'm wrong about that. Which of the 512x formats is used in drives that do not say what format they used, e.g., most of the NAS and the Desktop drives? Perce 
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March 20th 17, 08:46 PM
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Format of "Enterprise" drives
On 3/18/2017 12:03 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
As I look for a reliable 4TB drive to replace some older drives in an older machine (SB850 controller), I see that some, especially Seagate, come in a variety of formats: 4Kn, 512e, 512n. Which of these would work in that machine? -- presumably NOT the 4Kn, but maybe I'm wrong about that. Which of the 512x formats is used in drives that do not say what format they used, e.g., most of the NAS and the Desktop drives? Perce Aren't all of the current drives 4K byte sectors ? Lynn
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March 20th 17, 11:14 PM
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Format of "Enterprise" drives
Lynn McGuire wrote:
Aren't all of the current drives 4K byte sectors ? Nope, but I'm pretty sure all hardware and OS/file systems have been able to handle 4k disks for many years.
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