What does NTSTATUS 0xC0E70004 (STATUS_SPACES_DRIVE_SECTOR_SIZE_INVALID) mean?

 
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STATUS_SPACES_RESILIENCY_TYPE_INVALID STATUS_SPACES_DRIVE_REDUNDANCY_INVALID

STATUS_SPACES_DRIVE_SECTOR_SIZE_INVALID

Check the device-reported sector geometry

This status is about the sector sizes exposed by a physical disk to the Storage provider. It is not a filesystem cluster-size error and is not fixed by reformatting an NTFS or ReFS volume. A pool can reject a member whose logical or physical sector geometry is unsupported by the subsystem or inconsistent with the layout it is trying to create or extend.

Useful checks

  • Compare LogicalSectorSize and PhysicalSectorSize for every candidate disk, not only the new member.
  • Check controller, enclosure, and driver firmware because translation layers can change the geometry visible to Windows.
  • Choose media with compatible exposed geometry rather than changing virtual-disk resiliency values that do not address the mismatch.
Get-PhysicalDisk | Select-Object FriendlyName, Model, LogicalSectorSize, PhysicalSectorSize, OperationalStatus, HealthStatus

Microsoft: MSFT_PhysicalDisk class

Microsoft: Get-PhysicalDisk


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