4k sector drives

[Emmanuel Florac]

Le Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:38:43 +0200
Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms at citd.de> écrivait:

> Only for writes, reads are for practically unaffected.

Sequential writes may be relatively unaffected too; if you write
sequentially a couple of megabytes you'll have only a couple of
additional blocks at the beginning and end of operation.

However random  and small IOs should be seriously hit.

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