12 Aug
2013
12 Aug
'13
9:13 p.m.
Stephen Harris wrote:
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:56:59PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I'll note right back at'cha that all of the 3TB drives we have appear to have firmware in them that will present the blocks as 512b.
Many/most "advanced format" do "512e" but not all do.
The newer 1Tb disks I have do, as "smartctl -a" tells me:
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
The logical (thought of the word after I hit <send>) is what I was talking about. My 2TB and 3TB do the same. Look at it from the disk manufacturers' standpoint: they *know* there's a zillion machines out there whose users want to use the larger drives, and aren't going to buy a new computer to do so.
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