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Extremely Low Random Read/Write Performance on (4096 Aligned) Advanced Format Disks

On a SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s *-disk:0 description: ATA Disk product: WDC WD20EFRX-68E vendor: Western Digital physical id: 0 bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0 hw_sector_size: 512 ...
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Using Seagate 3TB drives with a Dell PERC 710 - do I have to worry about align and sector size?

I'm going to setup our new server with 8 3TB HDD from Seagate. They come, as far as I know, internally with 4K sectors. I've run this past weekend some burn-in tests on the disks, before setting them ...
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