November 27, 201312 yr Hi, I am running UnRAID Server Pro 4.7 that I put together several years ago and have been away from my system and have not used it for several years. I went to add a new drive to the array and wanted to preclear it first. The new disk is a Seagate ST1500DL003 and preclear wanted to set the partition to 4k eventhough I did not use the -A option (is this normal behavior?). I looked up the drive specs and it is internally 4K and uses SmartAlign for older OSes. This got me thinking about my other drives, a 1.5T parity and 2 x 1.5T data drives. My parity is a Hitachi HDS723015BLA642, native 512 my first data drive is a Hitachi HDS5C3015ALA632, native 512 my second data drive is a Seagate ST1500DL003, native 4K My device settings are MBR:4K-aligned When I click on the disk link from the main page, the two Hitachi drives show MBR:4K-aligned, but the Seagate drive shows unknown. Why is this? I'm pretty sure I started with the 2 Hitachi drives and added the Seagate later. I typically preclear all drives. I think that I initially built the array on an older version of unRaid and upgraded to 4.7. I don't remember if I forced MBR4k using preclear on the Hitachi drives (512 native) and I don't remember if I forgot to add -A when preclearing the Seagate (did it format to 512?, does it matter?). HDPARM from myRaid: Logical Sector size: 512 bytes Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes Logical Sector-0 offset: 0 bytes What is the best way to fix this? In general, is it best to force MBR 4K for all drives when preclearing if you know you will have a mix of 512 and 4K aligned drives? Thanks Ed
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