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Long Block Data Standard Finalized
An anonymous reader writes "IDEMA has finally released the LBD (Long Block Data) standard. This standard, in work since 2000, increases the length of the data blocks of each sector from 512 bytes to 4,096 bytes. This is an update that has been requested for some time by the hard-drive industry and the development of new drives will start immediately. The new standard offers many advantages — improved reliability and higher transfer rates are the two most obvious. While some manufacturers say the reliability may increase as much as tenfold, the degree of performance improvement to be expected is a bit more elusive. Overall improvements include shorter time to format and more efficient data transfers due to smaller overhead per block during read and write operations."
All of my 400b files are now going to take up 10 times as much space!!!
Heh, glad to see this is finally going through!
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
Yeah why 4092 bytes? Why not 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 bytes? It seems to me to be the best option
NOTHING is 512 bytes anymore
Unless you've got a powerful fetish for ASCII pr0n
yeah, sure. Give a logical AND knowledgable answer.
Way to ruin the curve.
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Trying to fit an entire virus into 512 bytes was always a challenge.. but 4096 bytes? That's too easy!
How we know is more important than what we know.
These kinds of incremental standards are simply not forward-looking! I propose that the data block size be set to a minimum of 2^32 bytes.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
...if you have Windows loaded.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
I have to disagree with the whole premise here. I know that people always say that longer is better when it comes to hard drives, but I've never had any reliability problems with my smaller one. Not only that, but I've had very fast transfer rates under all sorts of strenuous loads.
Wait, we're talking about storage devices? Never mind...
Thank God for evolution.
It might reduce the number of pages, that's for sure
You may be sure that it might but I'm unsure that it won't...
Creating new standards takes time. After some searching, I found the minutes from their annual meetings since they started in 2000.
2001 Chair: "How about we double it?" Vote: Nay
2002 Chair: "How about we triple it?" Vote: Nay
2003 Chair: "How about 4x?" Vote: Nay
2004 Chair: "How about 5x?" Vote: Nay
(minutes from intervening years were tragically lost)
2007 Chair: "How's about 8x?" Vote: Yay
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Debian Finally Supports Long Block Data
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