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Is align required for WD RED drives?

Hi, I had just gotten myself 3 RED 3TB and will be putting them into RAID5 array. is Drive re-alignment to 4k required to be performed on them before I do anything?

Hello, They are already aligned for 4K sectors.

http://support.wdc.com/product/install.asp?groupid=619&lang=en

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