On May 28, 2012, at 5:48 AM, Nathan Kroenert wrote: > Hi folks, > > Looking to get some larger drives for one of my boxes. It runs exclusively > ZFS and has been using Seagate 2TB units up until now (which are 512 byte > sector). > > Anyone offer up suggestions of either 3 or preferably 4TB drives that > actually work well with ZFS out of the box? (And not perform like rubbish)... > > I'm using Oracle Solaris 11 , and would prefer not to have to use a hacked up > zpool to create something with ashift=12. > > Thoughts on the best drives - or is Solaris 11 actually ready to go with > whatever I throw at it? :)
Ashift is set automatically if the disk is truly 4k sector only (and doesn't lie). This has been true for ZFS for a very, very long time. -- richard -- ZFS Performance and Training richard.ell...@richardelling.com +1-760-896-4422
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