06-03-2013 06:56 AM
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06-14-2013 11:58 AM
We did some research and found this...
"Update: Seagate offered some clarification to the paragraph above. Internally the 3TB drive uses 512-byte sectors, however the GoFlex dock emulates a 4K drive to allow for a single 3TB partition to be created in Windows." (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3858/the-worlds-first-3tb-hdd-seagate-goflex-desk-3tb-review)
I assume the drive is good to use since it is 512 on the inside.
06-03-2013 07:22 AM
1) check that the disk itself is not full.
2) as it is a 3TB disk check that the sector size is NOT 4k - we only currently support a 512 byte sector size and typically a 3TB drive will be supplied by manufacturer with a 4K sector size. This large sector size is only officially supported bty Microsoft with Windows 2012, hence will only be supported by us when we provide support for Windows 2012 - which in this instance would have to be 2012 support on the media server.
Most hardware vendors have a way to reformat with a 512 byte emulation mode.
06-03-2013 07:36 AM
Ok. Our environment is 2003, 2008, and 2008 R2 servers
1) It always has 1TB of free space after Fulls and Increms.
2) I checked using "fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo h:" and it shows...
Bytes Per Sector : 4096
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment :
4096
What would you suggest for us to fix this?
06-03-2013 07:45 AM
it looks like you must reformat the sectors to 512 bytes per sector or wait for the SP who support WS 2k12.
is that correct Colin ?
06-03-2013 06:38 PM
wait for the SP who support WS 2k12.
The SP is of no use because the only OS that support 4K sector size is Windows 2012 and the user is not using Windows 2012.
06-13-2013 11:55 AM
Is there a way to change the sector size without reformatting? If so, is that advisable and will the data be okay, or will it be best to just reformat the entire drive?
06-13-2013 05:54 PM
Is there a way to change the sector size without reformatting?
No.
06-14-2013 11:49 AM
I went to reformat it, but it lists NTFS (Default) and exFAT. The lowest allocation unit for each is 4096bytes on NTFS and 256KB on exFAT.
06-14-2013 11:58 AM
We did some research and found this...
"Update: Seagate offered some clarification to the paragraph above. Internally the 3TB drive uses 512-byte sectors, however the GoFlex dock emulates a 4K drive to allow for a single 3TB partition to be created in Windows." (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3858/the-worlds-first-3tb-hdd-seagate-goflex-desk-3tb-review)
I assume the drive is good to use since it is 512 on the inside.