13 Apr
2012
13 Apr
'12
6:52 a.m.
On 4/13/12, m.roth@5-cent.us m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Wonder if it's trying to beat the rush - after weeks of googling, a few weeks ago, I finally found that if I formatted my 3TB drives on a 4k boundry, instead of a 512byte boundry, writes were literally about four times faster, because that's the physical sector on the drives.
It may be trying to do the same, to take care of this invisibly.
That is what I think the 2K first sector is supposed to do, align the physical sector be it a 512 or 4K drive. But unfortunately, the check for "is this a 4K HDD" appears to be naive.