Imminent change in HDD sector sizes
Friday, March 24th, 2006IDEMA (International Disk Drive, Equipment, and Materials Association) has formed a commitee to investigate future specs for magnetic storage devices - yeap, hard disk drives.
Well, the commitee recommended to replace standard of 512 bytes/sector - a 30-year-old standard - with sectors of 4096 bytes.
Windows Vista are said to support this. So, developers, start modifying your programs if you use aggressive buffer that relied upon 512 byte sectors.
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