On 09/28/2017 10:31 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
And even the sector size on recent drives is fictitious.
Larger drives use 4K sectors but "translate" them to the
512 byte standard.
So, for every write, it needs to read the 4K sector, alter
the bytes and then rewrite it? Hmmm, explains why writes
are slower than reads even on spinning disks. Of course, if
you write entire tracks, it can just hold the partial data
until it has all the data for that track, and write out the
buffer in one rotation.
Jon
