Hard drive spec change

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 13 05:45:36 UTC 2010


On 2010/03/10 21:28 (GMT-0500) Ric Wheeler composed:

> For anyone serious about storage (performance, reliability and power 
> consumption) this will be a positive step.

Not everyone. Users of larger numbers of small files and small numbers of
large files already lose a heap of space to slack even with 1024k blocksize,
which will at least quadruple if forced to 4k sectors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_fragmentation#Internal_fragmentation
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