Please get it right. I'm not arguing against support of new technologies. But now it's often when manufacturers trying to disguise cost cutting and marketing rubbish as prominent new technology.
Look at monitors as an example. Getting 16:10 aspect along with 4:3 was not a bad idea. While for some tasks 4:3 was better, 16:10 was better for others. But now 4:3 almost completely disappeared and 16:10 are quietly supplanted by 16:9. And with 16:9 aspect you plainly get less resolution (and thus less information displayed) for given diagonal and money compared to 16:10. "Hey! They intended for watching movies!" But was "Casablanca" or "The Maltese Falcon" shot in 16:9? If not count for tons of potentially broken legacy software, 4k sector is not a bad idea alone. But it became actual just now because manufacturers lacks other "real" technologies for holding more user data on same size platters. And 5 to 10 years down the road not only 512 byte sectors, but whole idea of "precision mechanics that spins and wiggles to remember something" may look "slightly" outdated. In fact it is already looking so about few years, but for the moment we (of course manufacturers at the first place), don't have any better solution than to increase sector size. On 10.04.11 17:43, Michael B. Brutman wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
