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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. Finally! by Zo0ok · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Finally! This is what I really wanted for years. Cant believe this innovation has not been materialized earlier. This is great for perfomance, TCO, iPods, everything. I cant wait to get my hands on one of those new goodies!

  2. 30 years and now it's bumped up only 8x? by WoTG · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Bumping this up makes sense; however, I wonder if 4KB (KiB?) is a bit low. I know that hard drive sizes have gone up way more than 8x. Let's see, I started with a 20MB drive in an XT. My desktop downstairs has a 200GB drive. So, that's about 10,000 times bigger. Intuitively, a 8x bump in sector size seems a bit small. Wouldn't something like 16KB be useful for a few extra years?

  3. I, for one... by Zaatxe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... welcome our new 4Kbytes sector overlords.

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    So say we all