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Changes in HDD Sector Usage After 30 Years

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-and-improved dept.

freitasm writes "A story on Geekzone tells us that IDEMA (Disk Drive, Equipment, and Materials Association) is planning to implement a new standard for HDD sector usage, replacing the old 512-byte sector with a new 4096-byte sector. The association says it will be more efficient. According to the article Windows Vista will ship with this support already."

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  1. Ah, error correction. by wesley96 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, CD-ROMs use 2352 bytes per sector, ending up with 2048 actual bytes after error correction. Looking at the size of the HDDs these days a 4096-byte sector seems pretty reasonable.

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