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Felix Miata wrote:
Per Jessen composed on 2015-03-16 16:00 (UTC+0100):
Anton Aylward wrote:
I suppose all late model disks are 4K :-)
Probably the larger ones, but I have a bunch of 2Tb drives, they're all 512bytes.
If the actual date of manufacture (often missing from labels of refurbs) is post-2010, it is almost certainly 4k, regardless of size. The only 2TB devices I have were manufactured before 2011. IOW, Anton was on track, everything made in the past 4+ years is 4k.
Empirical evidence says otherwise. I have for instance 24 SATA drives currently active, all 2Tb. They're running 24x7, I'm judging their approx. manufacture date by power_on_hours. The oldest is from Jan2012, the youngest from March 2014. They're all 512bytes block size. And yes, they were all deployed within days of purchase. Manufacture date could vary by a couple of months I suppose. I bought some WDC RE4's only just recently, but they're spares, I don't know their blocksizes. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.9°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org