[OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

[Eric D. Mudama]

On Tue, Mar 22 at 18:34, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> I just finished replacing 7x3+1(spare) 2TB drives with Hitachi 3TB
> ones, and it works like a dream. Also, Hitachi 3TB drives have 512
> byte sector size, only a larger LBA (don't remember how many bits).

What does this mean?  Typically an LBA (logical block address) is a
sector.  Are you saying they use a (512B+ECC overhead) codeword on the
media for their error correction, and if so, how do you know?

--eric

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Eric D. Mudama
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