Hi Ric, Can you point me in the general direction of these native 4K sector SAS drives? A vendor at least? Thus far I'm unable to locate them. Thanks. Stan On 8/15/2013 6:30 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/15/2013 1:20 PM, Ric Wheeler wrote: >> On 07/25/2013 05:36 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> AFAIK there are no native 4K sector drives on the market yet. All of >>> the currently shipping models with physical 4K sectors are "Advanced >>> Format" drives. The Advanced Format standard specifies 4K physical >>> sectors -internal- to the drive, but with traditional 512B LBA >>> addressing. >> >> There are some (SAS) drives that do only 4K sectors. Not sure how >> popular they are, > > Google returns nothing on native 4KB drives at any drive vendor site, > other than two transition documents at Seagate and Toshiba extolling the > benefits of 512e technology. > > I can't find a press release. If native 4KB drives are indeed > available, the vendors sure don't appear too eager to tell the world > about them. The drives of which you speak, are these engineering > samples, OEM production only (EMC/IBM/etc), or general availability? > > Which vendor makes the drives of which you speak? _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
