Western Digital’s Advanced Format

[kirk121]

I have a quick question I have been looking at getting two 2TB hard drives and have seen the problems related to the 4k sectors, I was wondering if they are going to be just data storage on sever 2008 R2 do they need to need to be aligned or will just formatting them do the job.

Thanks

 

[sub.mesa]

Will be fine as long as you create the partitions using Windows setup or the disk management utility if its not the boot disk.

EARS will roughly mean lower bad sector rate due to bigger ECC error correction pools. But not very compatible with older OS and complex setups (i.e. ZFS RAIDZ).

 

[kirk121]

Thanks for the info