John_M Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 4K native Advanced Format disks are the future and adding support for them would only enhance compatibility with today's 512e disks. Please see this thread: https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=45368.0 where I do some testing with a 4Kn disk and find encouragement as I prepare it for inclusion in an unRAID array, only to fall at the last hurdle when the array won't start, rejecting the disk silently. I see no reason why 4Kn shouldn't be trivial to support as it's just a simplification of the 512e kludge. Confirming that this feature was added in unRAID 6.4.0-rc8q. Link to comment
jonp Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 We do plan to support this, but need to get one to test with. Probably just a little ways out yet (do not expect this in 6.2). Link to comment
John_M Posted January 15, 2016 Author Share Posted January 15, 2016 That's fine. I can wait, thanks. I'm just glad it's on the to do list! Link to comment
newerNan Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 It has been 9 months and 6.2 has finally been released! One can only assume that you guys at Limetech are now considering what will go into the next release. Is it too early to ask if 4kn drive support will be included? Link to comment
limetech Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 It has been 9 months and 6.2 has finally been released! One can only assume that you guys at Limetech are now considering what will go into the next release. Is it too early to ask if 4kn drive support will be included? How many devices out there are true 4kn? Meaning the logical sector size == physical sector size == 4096? I know there are some but seems to me these will fail in the marketplace because they are just not needed. All it does it let the drive manufactures rip out the firmware that deals with 512e. That firmware is written and mature, and besides all OS vendors (including us) have set things up so that partitions and file systems are aligned on 4K boundaries and use min 4K i/o anyway. There is no technical reason anything has to change at this point. That said, the feature is still on our 'todo' list but it's not very high on the list. This can change if a large customer requires the support though Link to comment
Hogwind Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I'm not a large customer but I have just bought two 10Tb disks that is 4k native, and it's very misleading when you can use the disks with "unassigned devices" and when you try to add to the array it will not start the array, not a single message why, you can keep pressing the start button efter the page has reloaded. I sure as hell want this feature as soon as possible, having bought two 10Tb disk that I can't use as intended make my stomach hurt. Link to comment
xodusgenesis Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Same, would like to see this feature request be a higher priority. More and more drives released today are 4k native that unraid can't handle. Link to comment
-Daedalus Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 As someone who's probably going to be picking up a few 10TB disks in the near future: What? Can someone explain this? Why wouldn't those (or other) disks work with unRAID? Link to comment
JorgeB Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 29 minutes ago, -Daedalus said: As someone who's probably going to be picking up a few 10TB disks in the near future: What? Can someone explain this? Why wouldn't those (or other) disks work with unRAID? You can buy a 10TB disk, the majority of disks are still 512e only, for those that exist in both options just make sure you choose the 512e variant, most (all?) models that are available with 4kn also are available with 512e. Link to comment
jon928 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I'd like to throw my hat into the 4kn support as well. The sooner it can be supported the better please. Much appreciated! Link to comment
Jason N Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 It's pretty shady that this 512e requirement is not in the hardware requirement list or any of the official documentation. So glad I bought a Pro license and can't use my 10TB disks. Link to comment
JonathanM Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 4 hours ago, Jason N said: It's pretty shady that this 512e requirement is not in the hardware requirement list or any of the official documentation. So glad I bought a Pro license and can't use my 10TB disks. I agree that it's not good to have to search the forum for this info, but to be fair, limetech has a generous trial period before you are required to purchase a license. That trial period should be used to fully evaluate what you want to use before you spend the money. I'm sure they will add 4kn support ASAP, but who knows how long it will actually take. There are MANY requests and modifications that are being worked on right now, and 4kn is on that list. Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 For anyone searching v6.4rc8 added support for 4kn disks: Link to comment
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