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I think 8192 is high enough, since 4096 only breaks after something like 16TB.

when I get new hdds, i open a tmux instance with one pane per hdd, then i do:

• smartctl -t short /dev/sdX
• smartctl -t conveyance /dev/sdX
• badblocks -b 4096 -ws /dev/sdX
• smartctl -t long /dev/sdX

And if it passes all those, then I put them into a zpool.

edit: for bigger drives, you might need to increase the block size for badblocks, 65535 for example.

Yeah, the kernel and hardware compatibility as well as older libraries on LTS distros are what i was wondering about. Perhaps one or both of those contributed to the Mint issues seen.

I keep on the most recent non-lts Ubuntu distro and i've had very little issues with steam. The LTS part might be the issue?