I've got two older Samsung 1TB drives and just bought a new 2TB WD drive.
The Samsung drives are 512K sector sizes and the WD 4K sector size.
I formatted them using NTFS and Default Allocation Unit Size.
I have my drives in a pool with Drive Bender.
I've jsut run the command fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo on each physical drive and the results are as follows:
Samsung drives
Bytes Per Sector 512
Bytes Per Physical Sector 512
Bytes Per Cluster 4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Sector 1024
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment 0
WD Drive
Bytes Per Sector 512
Bytes Per Physical Sector 4096
Bytes Per Cluster 4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Sector 1024
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment 0
Does this mean all the drives have the Default Allocation Unit size set to 4096 or does it mean the WD is capable of 4K but its currently using 512K? I'm guessing either way theres going to be a performance hit. Are you able to use different sector size disks? Is there a best practice of formatting them?