HD manufacturers to transition to 4k sector size

[Trooper110]

AnandTech: Western Digital’s Advanced Format: The 4K Sector Transition Begins
Western Digital brings Advanced Format to Caviar Green - The Tech Report

[Trooper110]

Read the articles, there's actually a lot of sense in doing the transition. Well, other than that XP might kick some fits, although most people should be moving away from XP by now. In fact, the change may actually increase speed.

[K PhaNTOM]

OK I still don't get it. It talks about how it can increase capacity for those drives. It just doesn't say if I can buy a 10TB HDD next year. Those 1TB drives are too small, for my needs.

[juneau]

Why did they pick their worst drive for the test bed? I loathe the 'green' drives. Slowest ones I have.

Anyone else find it hard to believe that there won't be a performance decrease in the HDD having to split the chunks, especially when it comes to fragmentation?

The green drives are designed for mass storage. Please tell me you're not using them as an OS or other App based drive?

[K PhaNTOM]

The green drives are designed for mass storage. Please tell me you're not using them as an OS or other App based drive?

Answer my question with a question will ya?!

No, I'm using Raptors for my main. All my green is external (I also don't like Green because it sounds like something that Al Gore is stuffing down my throat)

[juneau]

Answer my question with a question will ya?!

No, I'm using Raptors for my main. All my green is external (I also don't like Green because it sounds like something that Al Gore is stuffing down my throat)

I didn't quote you!

But to answer your question, no. No you will not be able to buy 10tb drives next year. I actually doubt that any manufacturer will release anything higher than the current 2tb drive by WD.

[K PhaNTOM]

Crap. Turn back time! Superman did it once! DO IT JUNEAU!

Thanks though

[Trooper110]

And no PhaN, moving to 4k sector sizes won't affect your....video stash......

[K PhaNTOM]

And no PhaN, moving to 4k sector sizes won't affect your....video stash......

Too bad. Come to think of it. If they do fail it's a huge loss of data compared to 1Tb.

I do like to make a rig with 50TBs just to say I have one

[Squidboy]

Too bad. Come to think of it. If they do fail it's a huge loss of data compared to 1Tb.

I do like to make a rig with 50TBs just to say I have one

Here you go:

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog

You could actually get ~90TB with 2TB drives in that thing.

[K PhaNTOM]

Looks epic. Guess I'll have a reason to save up some cash. PB here I come!

[juneau]

Crap. Turn back time! Superman did it once! DO IT JUNEAU!

Thanks though

[Zantheus]

$8000 is still a little too much...I'd be happy with even 10 drives and it is way more affordable