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Hard disk sectors were 512 bytes and remained that way up until about 2010. ITYM the FAT cluster size?
by caf 8y ago
Hard disk sectors were 512 bytes and remained that way up until about 2010. ITYM the FAT cluster size?
- WalterBright 8y agoIf I recall correctly, disks emulated 512 byte sectors for compatibility, but actually had larger ones. But I don't have documentation on such pre-google things :-)
- baruch 8y agoDisk sectors remained 512 for a very long time, only in recent years (2010 sounds right) did they make the 4k sectors with emulation for 512 or just native 4k drives. It is true however that sequential access to hdds and floppies was always much faster than random access or even sequential in small buffers simply because the drive does not need to wait for the platter rotation to reach the right location again for each sector written but rather just write them all in one go.