What's the difference in Sector Size?

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fabriciocontreras
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What's the difference in Sector Size?

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Creating Array has a menu for "sector size", what does it means? How the selection would impact in the performance of the unit?

This menu allows me to select between: 512B, 1k, 2k, 4k.

Terramaster D5 Thunderbolt 3.
MacBook Pro M2
64 GB
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Re: What's the difference in Sector Size?

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fabriciocontreras wrote: 25 Aug 2023, 09:11 Creating Array has a menu for "sector size", what does it means? How the selection would impact in the performance of the unit?

This menu allows me to select between: 512B, 1k, 2k, 4k.

Terramaster D5 Thunderbolt 3.
MacBook Pro M2
64 GB
Modern/newer Advanced Format drives use 4K logical sectors & that's what you should be using in an array for them as well.

Which brand & model/part number drives are you (intending on) using?
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Re: What's the difference in Sector Size?

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I'm using Seagate Exxos 20TB. 5 drives of it for the Terramaster D5 T3
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