4k sector drives
Stan Hoeppner
stan at hardwarefreak.com
Fri Jul 23 07:41:10 CDT 2010
Christoph Hellwig put forth on 7/23/2010 5:47 AM:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 05:42:59AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> FWIW, for comparison, my 500GB Blue series WD5000AAKS-00V1A0 shows
>>
>> logical_block_size 512
>> physical_block_size 512
>> alignment_offset 0
>
> Which means there is absolutely no visible 4k sector support.
Sorry for the confusion Christoph.
I meant for comparison to a plain old 512 byte/sec drive from the same
manufacturer. The Western Digital Caviar Blue model WD5000AAKS, my drive
above, has 512 byte sectors. His 2TB Caviar Green has 4096 byte sectors.
--
Stan
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