Re: WD20EARS: finally reporting 4KByte sector size!

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On 5/15/2011 10:54 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
> I picked up my third WD 2TB "Green" drive today,
> and lo and behold.. the firmware (51.0AB51) actually
> reports the real physical sector size (finally!).

>         Logical  Sector size:                   512 bytes
>         Physical Sector size:                  4096 bytes

What is the positive significance of this change?  What does this
materially change for the better?

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Stan
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