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HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the zomg-the-world-will-collapse dept.

Luminous Coward writes "As previously discussed on Slashdot, according to AnandTech and The Tech Report, hard disk drive manufacturers are now ready to bump the size of the disk sector from 512 to 4096 bytes, in order to minimize storage lost to ECC and sync. This may not be a smooth transition, because some OSes do not align partitions on 4K boundaries."

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  1. Re:So only XP is out of luck? by gbjbaanb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    whoooooo. WinXP is end-of-life? You'd best tell that to all the millions of users (including big businesses) out there.

    What that's you say? Upgrade to Windows 7 and use its perfectly infallible XP mode?

    Ah, I understand now. Hi Bill, how's Steve getting on, still a bit sweaty and concerned he's not selling enough?