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AF 4kn sector drives support on Perc, Poweredge, Powervault
Been hunting for information on sector size 4kn Advanced Format support on Perc, PowerEdge and PowerVault. Dell published a document about these specs however it does not mention specific Dell hardware.
Anyone know if 4kn is supported on Perc 700/i, PowerEdge R710 (if not, which Perc/PowerEdge) ?
What I did find about PowerVault is that it only mentions 512e support on the drives listed for use with MD1200
DELL-Daniel My
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April 5th, 2017 18:00
Hello
4k native sector support is a feature of our latest generation PERC9 controllers(H730). No previous PERCs support 4Kn. The specification sheet lists 4Kn if it is supported.
http://www.dell.com/perc/
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June 28th, 2017 03:00
Hi Daniel,
does the PERC 830 Controller support a MD1200 with 4kn disks?
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Ludwig
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June 28th, 2017 11:00
Hello
The PERC H830 does support 4kn/4 KB native block size.
www.dell.com/support/home/product-support/product/poweredge-rc-h830/manuals
The H830 may work with an MD1200, but it is not supported. You can view the supported controllers under the external storage tab of the PERC page:
https://www.dell.com/perc
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