fyi
just means you lose much,much more stuff when the hard drive cr@ps out.
BIG DEAL! Lets hope it is better than the lemon of a 50” rear projection Hitachi TV that I purchased. The picture developed a large red glow in the middle of the picture.. I found out on the internet that lots of other consumers had developed the condition with the same set and were complaining about it. The problem was a defective color engine that caused the part to overheat. The color engine is what makes the set work and is the most important part. When I contacted Hitachi they denied there was a problem even though they knew it and were very nasty about my inquiry. Told me not to believe what I read on the internet even though lots of Hitachi set owners were describing the exact problem I was experiencing My 4 year service plan with Sears was just over so I thought Hitachi would admit to knowing the part was defective and offer to stand by their product and correct the problem. All I got was the brush off. I will NEVER EVER buy a Hitachi product and will encourage anybody else I can to do likewise.
I’ve been wondering why we don’t go to this for a while. The Windows world has been using 4K clusters by default for years. HFS+ (Mac) uses 4K blocks for many parts of the file system, and the typical allocation block size is 4K+. IIRC, ext3-4 uses 4K and up block sizes.
It’s about time we stop playing around with 512b hard drive sectors, and allow a direct file system block to HDD sector mapping for most uses.