Thanks again Texturtle.
Not to change topics, but I have two other quick questions about the TS5400R unit, which I hope no one minds me asking here.
First: RAM Capacity and ECC (UDIMM and/or RDIMM etc) support?
I recently opened up the lid to the unit to clean out dust and check the condition of the fans and components and noticed the 2GB DDR3 SO-DIMM chip on the mainboard.
Does anyone know if that chip is an ECC chip? If not, would the mainboard support an unbuffered ECC DDR3 SO-DIMM chip? Regardless, what is the maximum capacity allowed?
If I have an opportunity to install a higher capacity, unbuffered ECC SO-DIMM DDR3 RAM chip, that would be absolutely awesome.
Because I'm installing four 8TB hard drives, at least in theory, higher capacity memory would most likely suit the larger array.
Second: Sector Size and Advanced Format (AF) 4kn Drives
Is there a way, when creating logical volumes/RAID partitions, to specify the sector size that the NAS/fs uses for the drives? My main issue is with 512e drives, which are actually 4kn AF drives, but logically report to the controller, a 512b sector size for compatibility reasons. When file systems interact with AF 4kn drives with 512b sector sizes, the drives introduce a performance penalty that could be avoided by forcing the use of 4kn sector sizes to begin with.
Is there a way to force the TS5400R NAS to use AF 4kn sector sizes?