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From: Lynn McGuire on 28 Apr 2010 16:24
I am about to put one of these new 4K sector hard drives on a
Windows 2003 server pc. Should I be worried:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8557144.stm

Thanks,
Lynn
From: Arno on 28 Apr 2010 17:52
Lynn McGuire <lmc(a)winsim.com> wrote:
> I am about to put one of these new 4K sector hard drives on a
> Windows 2003 server pc. Should I be worried:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8557144.stm

Not worried, but you need to understand how to ensure alogned
partition and filesystem clusters. If you get it wrong,
HDD performance might be very low.

Arno
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From: Lynn McGuire on 29 Apr 2010 17:28
>> I am about to put one of these new 4K sector hard drives on a
>> Windows 2003 server pc. Should I be worried:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8557144.stm
>
> Not worried, but you need to understand how to ensure alogned
> partition and filesystem clusters. If you get it wrong,
> HDD performance might be very low.

I swapped the hard drive and put it into my Windows 7 x64 pc
that apparently understands what 4k sectors are. No problems
so far.

Thanks,
Lynn


From: Franc Zabkar on 29 Apr 2010 21:00
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:28:58 -0500, Lynn McGuire <lmc(a)winsim.com> put
finger to keyboard and composed:

>>> I am about to put one of these new 4K sector hard drives on a
>>> Windows 2003 server pc. Should I be worried:
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8557144.stm
>>
>> Not worried, but you need to understand how to ensure alogned
>> partition and filesystem clusters. If you get it wrong,
>> HDD performance might be very low.
>
>I swapped the hard drive and put it into my Windows 7 x64 pc
>that apparently understands what 4k sectors are. No problems
>so far.

See the following article.

Advanced Format Hard Drive Download Utility:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/

- Franc Zabkar
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From: Lynn McGuire on 30 Apr 2010 12:26
>> I swapped the hard drive and put it into my Windows 7 x64 pc
>> that apparently understands what 4k sectors are. No problems
>> so far.
>
> See the following article.
>
> Advanced Format Hard Drive Download Utility:
> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/

I knew about that. I just decided not to do it.

And the drive had a complete failure 30 minutes later after I
wrote 30 GB to it. Unreal. The BIOS could still see it but
Windows 7 x64 locked up trying to talk to it. I have ordered
a replacement (cant return it because of the confidential
material written to it). The comments on newegg are implying
a 10% failure rate on these drives.

Lynn
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