Questions on new drives

[Wynn]

Hello all, thanks in advance for any help that you can give me here. I am running v 9.2-release-p4, I have 6 drives split into two raidz1's. I recently bought 3 shiny new 4tb drives to replace the 3 1tb drives that were there in order to get some new storage space. I took each drive offline one by one and replaced them, went through the resilver process with no problems. I now have a ton of space which is awesome, all of my data appears intact. But I also have two errors to figure out.

The first is a SMART error on one of the new drives, a 184 End-to-End_Error message. Should I get this drive replaced? I tried different SATA ports and cables and get the error no matter what.

The second problem is that the new drives are giving me a message:
status: One or more devices are configured to use a non-native block size. Expect reduced performance.
raidz1-1 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/1f250040-013b-11e4-bdab-0cc47a04f886 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size: 512B configured, 4096B native
gptid/a521a0a5-fb35-11e3-ba27-0016e684afee ONLINE 0 0 0 block size: 512B configured, 4096B native
gptid/fcc3ed97-0257-11e4-93f6-0cc47a04f886 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size: 512B configured, 4096B native
Is this fixable, I can't seem to find out anything about this one?

 

[solarisguy]

I do not know the meaning of S.M.A.R.T. 184 error.

The other error... Save your data to 2 or 3 backup copies. Install FreeNAS 9.2.1.6 and redo the volume.

The error originated when your new Advanced Format (AF) drives replaced non-AF drives (also known as 512n drives).

 

[danb35]

Here's more info on the block size issue:
http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/9-2-non-native-block-size-error.16883/

 

[no_connection]

184 tells you that the on board cache/buffer on the HDD is generating checksum error, meaning it it likely broken.
Replace the drive.