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On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Julian Hall wrote:
'By early 2011 all hard drives will use an "advanced format" that changes how they go about saving the data people store on them.'http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8557144.stm
Calling the move to 4KB sectors "advanced format" is a bit rich, but hey, lets not let the facts get in the way of a good story.
However I'm fairly sure there are already drives with 4K sector abilitys avalable now, not in 2011, or at least they'll be avalable real soon now...
And not even terribly new news either: /. story from about 3 weeks ago too: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/02/14/1541244 Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html