HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors

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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Re:So only XP is out of luck?

[Bigjeff5]

What about when networking doesn't work? I can tell you from personal experience, it's a bitch. The man pages in Ubuntu suck, and having all your good documentation online is not necessarily a good thing. I had to rely on a windows machine to figure out how to fix it.

Also, Linux is not one operating system the same way Windows is not one operating system (there are ten major variations of Windows). In fact, Windows fits the distinction better than Linux, as each new version of Windows far more different than the various flavors of Linux. For Linux distros using the same kernel, the differences are generally similar to the differences between Windows Home, Professional, and Ultimate editions. Yeah, not as many flavors, but they all interact with each other quite well.

I've played with Linux off and on over the years, but my primary experience is recent - I switched to Ubuntu from Vista after Vista hardware issues pissed me off. I eventually switched back to Vista after about a year due to the exact same problems the GP was talking about.

The truth of the matter is everything is easier in Windows than in Linux. Linux was made by developers for developers, and that simply results in a poor non-developer experience. I've never had to edit an install script in Windows to install a program properly, I definitely can't say that for Linux.

Oh, and the term "hacker" has been used (incorrectly) in place of cracker for at least a decade now. They even call script-kiddies hackers. Hax0r is just leet speak for hacker. So, of course hax0r implies cracker, because hacker implies cracker even though there were originally distinct differences between the two.