Greg Freemyer said the following on 01/21/2010 05:09 PM:
Next generation drives will be 4K physical sectors. That way they can more effectively handle small media glitches without having to remap.
And about time too! I recall when Berkeley moved to 4K logical sectors for improved performance with their Fast File system back in the 1980s. And MS-DOS/Wondows has been able to use 4K logical sectors sicne .. when?
fyi: drives with 4k physical sectors are already shipping as of a couple months ago. The one I've heard of (WD?) still presents a 512byte logical sector interface to the controller.
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