`<div dir="ltr">At some point sourcing true 512 B/sector disks will get more difficult and expensive - unless you knew this filesystem is likely to see lots of small writes and performance or space efficiency are critical I'd lean to the 4KB sector disks.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Richard Elling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.elling@richardelling.com" target="_blank">richard.elling@richardelling.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> On Feb 25, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Tobias Oetiker <<a href="mailto:tobi@oetiker.ch">tobi@oetiker.ch</a>> wrote:<br>
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> experts!<br>
><br>
> If you were to buy 6TB disks for a RAIDZ2 Pool, would you go for<br>
> 512n like in the olden days, or use the new 4Kn.<br>
><br>
> I know ZFS can deal with both ...<br>
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> So what would be your choice, and WHY?<br>
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</span>Better yet, what would be your requirements, then your choice, then why?<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> -- richard<br>
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> cheers<br>
> tobi<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland<br>
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