Pandu Poluan writes: > On Mar 5, 2012 3:37 AM, "Alex Schuster" <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote:
> > Now I have a related question: My new seagate Barracuda > > Green 2TB ST2000DL003-9VT166 drive has 4096 bytes per sector, but uses > > something that is called SmartAlign(TM) [*]. Seagate says that there > > are no performance impacts even when the partitions are misaligned. > > This would be good, because I completely forgot about this when > > creating partitions, and I would like to keep it as it is now. Has > > anyone heard about this? Can I trust Seagate that what they say is > > correct? > > > > [*] > > www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/de.../mb6101_smartalign_technology_faq.pdf > Your URL got munged there, I can't download the pdf. Argh, how did that happen? I just copied from Firefox' address bar. And it was in German anyway. Sorry. But somehow interesting, seems I sometimes don't even notice which language a text is written in. Here is the English version: http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/tp615_smartalign_for_af_4k.pdf This link also has some information, and the other one explains what the problem with a 4K sector size is. But beware, this may well be Seagate propaganda. http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2010/06/the-digital-den/advanced-format-drives-with-smartalign/ http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2010/03/the-digital-den/4k-sector-hard-drive-primer/ Wonko
