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Small victory: Acquired approval and just ordered 4 Seagate enterprise grade hard drives to install on one of our servers to replace the usage of a Synology ds1512 + consumer hard drives.

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@scottalanmiller said in Purchasing new hard drives: Embrace 4kn?:

@EddieJennings said in Purchasing new hard drives: Embrace 4kn?:

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From: https://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/advanced-format-disk-compatibility-update

This topic introduces the effect of Advanced Format storage devices on software, discusses what apps can do to help support this type of media, and discusses the infrastructure that Microsoft introduced with Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 to enable developers to support these types of devices.<

I must've misunderstand the usage of apps. Article was a good read.

It's about performance. Not support.

Curious, because it read to me like it's a support issue, which can be worked around with the 512e drives with a possible performance cost. However, on second thought, it would make sense that if the OS supports 4kn sectors, then the applications running on top of it shouldn't care about the sectors (which is what you said before).

@scottalanmiller said in Purchasing new hard drives: Embrace 4kn?:

@EddieJennings said in Purchasing new hard drives: Embrace 4kn?:

I know my RAID controller supports it and Windows Server 2012 R2 supports it.

Windows shouldn't be installed directly on the RAID controller, you should have a hypervisor layer in between that will talk to the storage directly. Windows should only be seeing the VHD and not care what is underneath.

I know. The environment I'm in should be virtualized.

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From: https://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/advanced-format-disk-compatibility-update

This topic introduces the effect of Advanced Format storage devices on software, discusses what apps can do to help support this type of media, and discusses the infrastructure that Microsoft introduced with Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 to enable developers to support these types of devices.<

I must've misunderstand the usage of apps. Article was a good read.

We're moving from using a Synology 1512 with consumer drives to local storage (am eyeing Seagate Enterprise hard drives) for one of our servers. I'm presented with whether or not I want to use hard drives with native 4K sectors.

I know my RAID controller supports it and Windows Server 2012 R2 supports it. I also know the existing drives (Intel s3500) are 512e, as fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo shows the sector size as 512 bytes and the physical sector size as 4096 bytes. Also, the iSCSI drive that the Synology presents also shows the same sector sizes.

Assuming my company's web application supports this 4k environment, would there be any reason to avoid the new 4kn drives?

Also always, thanks my fellow Mangolassi folk for aiding in my learning

Just ordered a refurbished Dell R310 from Stallard Technologies.

@scottalanmiller Yeah. I was surprised. Actually only the last 3 years have been in the 40% range.

Total storage consumed:
2009: 9 GB
2010: 20 GB
2011: 40 GB
2012: 68 GB
2013: 116 GB
2014: 172 GB
2015: 253 GB
2016: 369 GB

That's not huge about of storage consumed by any means, but it was curious to see what the percentage of growth has been. Useful information for trying to get an idea of future storage needs.

@NerdyDad Did my math incorrect before. Average growth of the total storage used on the NAS is 44% / year.

@NerdyDad The largest of folders has grown about 150% each year for the last several, which has prompted me to look at more data.

Determining storage usage since the beginning of time for our NAS (2010) to get an idea of possible storage requirements in the future.

Found this on Reddit: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2527153/it-management/opinion--the-unspoken-truth-about-managing-geeks.html Old, but good.

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