[OpenIndiana-discuss] Are there any issues re ZFS on 2TB disks (from WD??) with large blocksizes?

Robin Axelsson gu99roax at student.chalmers.se
Mon Feb 7 12:13:58 UTC 2011


Could someone enlighten me as to what is wrong with WD's disks, and 
particularly what's wrong with their EARS disks?

On 2011-02-07 12:52, Piotr Jasiukajtis wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>
>> I'm planning to upgrade my two mirrored 500 GB SATAII rpool disks to 2x2TB  disks.
>>
>>
>> A friend with some Sun experience claims there was some problem with using ZFS on large disks, possibly because of block size on some new large disks.
>>
>> Can anyone enlighten me or point me to the proper docs or something?
> Just avoid all WD EARS disks.
> Seagate ST32000542AS and Hitachi seems to work fine.
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