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Hello.
Unaligned Advanced Format drives with sector size of 4k will have degraded performance.
How do I make Disk Druid to partition drives correctly?
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I recently bought a new drive (specifically, a 2TB Samsung Spinpoint) that says on the label that it supports advanced format, and that I should download the tool from their site.
Unless I'm missing something, mkntfs has always had its maximum sector size at 4096b:
-s, --sector-size BYTES
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I use a 640 GB StoreJet Transcend (0x2329) with ZEVO Community Edition 1.1.1 on OS X 10.8.2.
Question
Is this drive Advanced Format?
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I submitted a request for technical support to Transcend but the first response was gibberish so I don't expect a reasonable follow-up.
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Hello.
Unaligned Advanced Format drives with sector size of 4k will have degraded performance.
How do I make Disk Druid to partition drives correctly?
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i am trying to query the physical sector size of my drive using fsutil:
C:\Windows\system32>fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c:
NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x78cc11b2cc116c1e
Version : 3.1
Number Sectors : 0x000000003a382fff
Total Clusters : …
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I just purchased a few new 3TB WD drives. These have physical 4k sectors, but there is some sort of layer which is providing 512B logical sectors (see the partition table below).
In order to attempt to get some more speed out of my hard drives, I would like to get rid of this logical layer and actually…
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Hello.
Unaligned Advanced Format drives with sector size of 4k will have degraded performance.
How do I make Disk Druid to partition drives correctly?
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