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."

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Thats a lot a bits

[rambag]

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

Re:Why 4096?

[geekoid]

yeah, sure. Give a logical AND knowledgable answer.
Way to ruin the curve.