Support for Advanced Format Block Size 4 KB Hard-Disk Drives
Storage Management supports virtual disk creation on Block Size 4 KB hard drives connected to PERC 9 and later of hardware controllers.
NOTE: Block-Size 4 KB hard drives are not supported on controllers before the PERC 9 family of hardware controllers. When the Block Size 4 KB hard drive is connected to any hardware controller before PERC 9, the Block Size 4 KB hard drive is displayed as
Unsupported.
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- When you create a virtual disk using the
Advanced Wizard, you can select the physical disk sector from the
Logical Block Size drop-down list. The options available are:
- 512B
- 4KB
- You cannot use both Block Size 4 KB hard drives and 512 B sector hard drives for a virtual disk creation as mixing of hard drive sectors is not allowed in Storage Management.
NOTE: When the system contains any 512e sector hard drives, the 512e sector hard drives are identified/reported as 512 B sector hard drives and follows the behavior of the 512 B sector hard drives.