- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Terminology
- Hardware best practices
- Networking best practices
- Windows Server 2012 R2 best practices
- Microsoft Storage Spaces best practices
- Cluster best practices
- Scale-Out File Server best practices
- Converged best practices
- Getting help
Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Best Practices Guide
Logical sector size
Older hard drives had a 512B physical sector size, while newer drives have a 4 KB physical sector size and either a 512B logical sector size (512e Drive) or a 4 KB logical sector size (4Kn Drive). If you add or replace disks in your storage pool with a 4Kn drive in the future, Dell recommends that you set your storage pool’s default logical sector size to 4 KB. You cannot add 4Kn drives to a storage pool using a logical sector size of 512B.
To determine the sector size of your current physical disks, run the following PowerShell command.
Get-PhysicalDisk | Sort-Object SlotNumber | Select-Object SlotNumber, FriendlyName, Manufacturer, Model, PhysicalSectorSize,
LogicalSectorSize | Format-Table
To create a storage pool with a logical sector size of 4 KB, use the command New-StoragePool along with the parameter "-LogicalSectorSizeDefault 4KB"
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