On Jun 25, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Robert Elz wrote: > ... > > I suppose that's true in theory, just as we don't know that the next > such device might not have 739 byte sectors, or rotate backwards, or ... > > However, in the real world, the manufacturers don't make products that > they can't sell, and people don't buy products that don't work (or not > very many of them), so anything that you're (likely to) buy is almost > certainly going to be reasonably compatible with what has gone before, > if perhaps not as efficient that way (which is why all the modern bigger > sector drives still pretend to have 512 byte sectors of course).
Are you talking about the upcoming 4k sector size drives? Some have 512 byte sector emulation, at a cost in performance, and some do not.