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> native block size (512 bytes for most drives these days) Not anymore. Advanced Format (4096-byte sector) hard drives have taken the market like a storm, and

by kosma 10y ago

> native block size (512 bytes for most drives these days) Not anymore. Advanced Format (4096-byte sector) hard drives have taken the market like a storm, and SSDs benefit even more from using larger I/O sizes (because erase sectors are way larger).

mschuster91 10y ago
Ah, I thought it was the other way round. Thanks for the information. Do you know a way to get an SSD's native erase sector size?
- zielmicha 10y ago
  I would guess that using erase sector size as a block size won't help, because SSD controller anyway rearranges blocks all the time.
- kosma 10y ago
  There is no simple answer to this. Stack Overflow has some hints but no definite answer.