HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors 442
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."
Factors of 10 (Score:5, Funny)
Why not just move it to 1000 byte sectors, then we could minimize the space lost to advertising.
(Note to accuracy nazis, this is meant to be funny)
Re:Care to provide examples? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Care to provide examples? (Score:5, Funny)
I realize this is Slashdot, but both of the articles linked talk about the affected operating system. Hint: It shares an ending with a colloquial name for urine.
Wii? PSP?
Re:Factors of 10 (Score:5, Funny)
How about leaving the word byte alone and using another, distinct group of letter to do the job? Respecifying only confuses the issue, even those who know, because you're still be working with two different definitions in the same field for a long time.
Re:intelligent interfaces (Score:5, Funny)
Do you really believe your hard drive has 256 heads?
It had only six, at first, but we didn't know the thing about burning the stumps.
Re:Factors of 10 (Score:4, Funny)
Mine goes to 11.
Tail packing (Score:5, Funny)
Unless HDD makers were going to create firmware, and programmers made partition formats, which address each bit individually (which itself would require an enormous amount of space... much larger than the HDD in fact), you will always be unable to live without sectors. The subdivision idea is again relevant. Imagine if every part of the 20 acre plot had to be "addressable" down to the square inch.
It's called block suballocation [wikipedia.org]: store a small file in its entirety in another file's slack space. And yes, it's a "killer" feature.
Re:Factors of 10 (Score:1, Funny)
What, like bite?
Re:Care to provide examples? (Score:5, Funny)
Solar... isssss
D:
Re:Care to provide examples? (Score:1, Funny)
OS X-crement?
Re:Tail packing (Score:3, Funny)
So, I guess Hans Reiser has a lot of experience with tail packing then.