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Pandu Poluan writes: |
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> On Mar 5, 2012 3:37 AM, "Alex Schuster" <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > Now I have a related question: My new seagate Barracuda |
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> > Green 2TB ST2000DL003-9VT166 drive has 4096 bytes per sector, but uses |
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> > something that is called SmartAlign(TM) [*]. Seagate says that there |
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> > are no performance impacts even when the partitions are misaligned. |
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> > This would be good, because I completely forgot about this when |
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> > creating partitions, and I would like to keep it as it is now. Has |
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> > anyone heard about this? Can I trust Seagate that what they say is |
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> > correct? |
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> > |
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> > [*] |
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> > www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/de.../mb6101_smartalign_technology_faq.pdf |
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> Your URL got munged there, I can't download the pdf. |
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Argh, how did that happen? I just copied from Firefox' address bar. And it |
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was in German anyway. Sorry. But somehow interesting, seems I sometimes |
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don't even notice which language a text is written in. |
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Here is the English version: |
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http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/tp615_smartalign_for_af_4k.pdf |
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This link also has some information, and the other one explains what the |
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problem with a 4K sector size is. But beware, this may well be Seagate |
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propaganda. |
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http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2010/06/the-digital-den/advanced-format-drives-with-smartalign/ |
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http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2010/03/the-digital-den/4k-sector-hard-drive-primer/ |
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Wonko |
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