Reformat NVMe Drive

Question

Our servers drives arrived at the default 512 Bytes per Sector.  How do i reformat the drives so we can set that to 4096?

RokShox · Answer

to be clear, we are wanting to understand how to reformat the NVMe drives that are direct connected to 4K

Additional info about server:

OS is Win Svr 2019

Svr has PERC H740P

Drives are

2 x 3.2TB NVMe Mixed Use - for SQL Database

2 x 800GB SAS SSD Write intensive

2 x 480GB SAS SSD Mixed use

6 x 1.6TB SAS SSD Mixed Use

DELL-Young E · Answer

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RokShox · Answer

Thank you - are these solutions for Windows?

Dell-Martin S · Answer

Hi,   you could use them with a live ubuntu OS   Regards Martin

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