G gpatrick Jun 12, 2012 #1 I have teo Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB USB drives that I am going to install FreeBSD 9.0 with ZFS onto using mirrored drives. My question is, should I align the disks for 4k or not?
I have teo Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB USB drives that I am going to install FreeBSD 9.0 with ZFS onto using mirrored drives. My question is, should I align the disks for 4k or not?
wblock@ Developer Jun 12, 2012 #2 Yes. Even if they only have 512-byte sectors, it will do no harm to align them to 4K.