-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2015-09-26 a las 12:29 -0400, greg.freemyer@gmail.com escribió:
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"However, by modifying the length of the data field through the implementation of Advanced Format using 4096-byte sectors, hard disk drive manufacturers could increase the efficiency of the data surface area by five to thirteen percent while increasing the strength of the ECC."
So, sticking with 512 byte sectors effectively wastes 5 to 13% of the potential storage on the platter due to inefficient headers/footers.
You should buy what works best for you, but I suspect over 95% of users go with the default 4kb filesystem page.
No, that doesn't matter at all to a user. If I buy a 1 TB disk, it will have 1 TB useful space no matter if organized internally in 512B blocks or 4K blocks. It only matters to the manufacturer, that he needs less surface for providing the same storage space. Hopefully that is translated to the users in lower prices. Maybe not. Of course, the space needed by the filesystem (whichever it is) for organizing the available space in indexes will be larger the smaller is the assignation block. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlYG5VIACgkQja8UbcUWM1z/VQD/S6UqrFU42YhLJ7CFqw8qt2ls aJi5IuxIcpWv5MWwcNABAIo5qTu3xJI2RLYgNtM4i4mblGqTaFb5Vq9d6a+HqHuo =A7FK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----