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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."

2 of 442 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Factors of 10 by Iyonesco · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If they want to use base10 the first thing they should do is respecify a byte to be 10bits.

    I somehow think their enthusiasm for base10 would diminish when it would case a a 25% drop in stated capacity.

  2. Okay. So, what if we have to image an old box? by E-Sabbath · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Let's say, two situations.
    A: Moving an XP box from an old 512 sector drive to a new, 4k sector drive. Image using, say, Acronis. Just have to run the CLI tool, after imaging?

    B: Moving an XP box, using Acronis, from a 4k to a 4k. Would I have to run the tool?