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Probably one of those really dumb questions but...
All my HDDs are native 4k drives (ie 4096 byte sectors) and, like most modern HDDs, they can emulate 512 byte sectors for logical addressing in order to expand compatibility. However, DSM fails to recognise this and treats the drives as having 512 byte native sectors.
DSM does highlight that 4k native drives should be run and managed '...separately from hard drives in other disk sector formats when creating, repairing, expanding and migrating any volume, disk group, RAID group and LUN'. Again, this makes sense from a performance perspective, especially if you want the best out of 4k native drives.
So how can you make DSM actually recognise and run 4k native drives as 4k native drives?
All my HDDs are native 4k drives (ie 4096 byte sectors) and, like most modern HDDs, they can emulate 512 byte sectors for logical addressing in order to expand compatibility. However, DSM fails to recognise this and treats the drives as having 512 byte native sectors.
DSM does highlight that 4k native drives should be run and managed '...separately from hard drives in other disk sector formats when creating, repairing, expanding and migrating any volume, disk group, RAID group and LUN'. Again, this makes sense from a performance perspective, especially if you want the best out of 4k native drives.
So how can you make DSM actually recognise and run 4k native drives as 4k native drives?