On 4/10/2011 5:20 AM, escape wrote: > Vote with your wallet. I'm personally not buying any 4k drives nor for > myself nor for companies I'm working for. When you need more than 2Tb of > space you always can add another 2Tb drive instead of replacing old > drive with bigger (3Tb) one.
I think that is a short term solution. Eventually all new drives are going to have 4KB sectors because it is easier to ship a standard product. 5 to 10 years down the road 512 byte sectors will be a legacy OS issue. Look at vintage computers as an example. I use DOS because that's what my favorite, vintage machines support. But finding old MFM hard drives that still work is getting harder and harder as the years go on. Eventually people decided it was time to find a more modern alternative, and we wound up designing and creating an 8 bit IDE card that can use LBA addressing. That lets us put the larger (newer) IDE drives in systems that were never designed for it. In a few years we're going to have to think about alternatives as the IDE drives die out. FreeDOS will have to do the same. Or you'll be stuck with antique hardware, or running in a virtual environment instead. (Which isn't all that bad.) Performance isn't much of an issue - if you really need the latest and greatest in performance, you are probably not running single threaded DOS apps. :-) Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
