2011/4/11, Michael B. Brutman <mbbrut...@brutman.com>: > Do you like cheap storage or 512 byte sectors?
Depends. You know: the storage itself may be somewhat cheaper - but because of its incompatibility, it can force me to replace part of my hardware, or to spend a lot of time for additional work of (re)configuration/installation (looking for special drivers, reading its docs, trying it, sending bugreports...) and so on. > I think we can live with the 4KB sectors - it's going to cause a performance > hit, Maybe, but there's simple solution within reach: making only that very large HDD (over 3 TB) with 4 KB sectors - and the smaller ones still with 512 byte sectors. The largest HDD I'm using has 320 GB, and that area is divided among 3 different OS-es, so - in fact - one can say, that I'm using HDDs not larger, than 100 GB, and it's large enought for me. For FreeDOS I'm using 2 GB partitions on even smaller disks (40 GB), just to _not_ waste space because of big clusters. So although I realize, that the others may have different needs (keeping movies on HDD, for example) - there are people, who aren't looking for tera-/petabyte-sized storage. No idea, when will I (and why..) need 2 TB HDD. So if the vendors could be kind enough to keep 2 TB (and smaller) HDDs with sectors of 512 b size, it can be seen as kind of solution for many next years. > but on modern hardware we have enough to burn. Wasting anything just "because we can afford it" is generally a bad idea. -- regards, Zbigniew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
