On Mon, February 7, 2011 14:12, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> Hi al
>
> Does anyone here that knows if the new 7K3000 drives from Hitachi uses 4k
> sectors or not? The docs say "Sector size (variable, Bytes/sector): 512",
> but since it's variable, any idea what it might be? I'm planning to
[...]

This PDF data sheet for SATA says 512, without the word "variable":

http://tinyurl.com/4b6qgtc
http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/EC6D440C3F64DBCC8825782300026498/$file/US7K3000_ds.pdf

Of course they could mean what's reported to the OS (the SAS models say
"512 / 520 / 528").

I'd e-mail or call Hitachi and ask them directly (the contact info is in
the PDF).

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