Dell PowerEdge R730xd 4K Sector HDD FAQ

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  • Dell PowerEdge R730xd | 4K Sector HDD FAQ - Page 1
    4K Sector HDD FAQ Dell Enterprise Disk Engineering January 3, 2014
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    Terminology Sector - An atomic unit of data transfer size from/to Hard Disk Drive Logical Block Address (LBA) - An atomic unit of HDD sector address (location). bytes). This is done to make the 512 emulation HDD compatible to legacy BIOS and Operating System. 2 4K Sector HDD FAQ | Dell Inc., 2014
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    in UEFI mode only **SUSE Linux Enterprise fully supports 4 KB/sector drives in all conditions and architectures with one exception. The 4KB/sector hard disk drives are not supported as a boot drive on x86_64 systems booting with a legacy BIOS. 3. Why do 512 emulation HDD has performance issue
  • Dell PowerEdge R730xd | 4K Sector HDD FAQ - Page 4
    , Cloud, and Cold drives do not have powerloss-protection during READ-MODIFY-WRITE operation. An emergency power loss during READMODIFY-WRITE drives Vendor C for Nearline and Enterprise drives Available as proto for enterprise 512e drives but no plan for production 4 4K Sector HDD FAQ | Dell
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    on mainstream Enterprise HDD in 2014. Dell is leading this transition by adopting these drives in PowerEdge , Power Vault, EqualLogic and Compellent systems. native HDD if he/she is only running with newer version of BIOS/OS/Software. This solution stack will have the optimal performance since the
  • Dell PowerEdge R730xd | 4K Sector HDD FAQ - Page 6
    • 512n and 4kn HDD, there is no data loss during sudden power off. • Enterprise 512e HDD with NVC and/or MBC/MC feature HDD), there is a risk of data integrity during sudden power loss. If volatile write cache is enabled, then sudden power loss will result in data cache loss regardless of the HDD
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4K Sector HDD FAQ
Dell Enterprise Disk Engineering
January 3, 2014