Yes I can remember testing this in the past, also did not see any difference.
I've played with these settings and didn't notice any benefit. Tools for changing sector size on HDDs are pretty terrible and it's really easy to brick your HDD when using incorrectly. I wouldn't recommend.
Best regards Adam Prycki
W dniu 30.01.2025 o 09:52, Marc pisze:
I used to have a tool from hgst/wd to 'convert' drives to 4Kn, but after a mentally challenging interaction with some wd support, I decided to try and use other solutions mentioned on the internet
this seems to produce output similar to the previously used tool sg_format --format --size=4096 /dev/sdd
Anyone have experience with this? This is first time the drives are already in the nodes, so I don't have a power cycle on them.