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System Name | Lenovo 17IMH05H |
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Processor | Core i7 10750H |
Video Card(s) | GTX 1660 Ti |
Audio Device(s) | SSL2 |
Software | Windows 10 Pro 22H2 |
Benchmark Scores | i've got a shitload of them in 15 years of TPU membership |
I am confused. I never expected that after so many years this fundamental hard drive understanding problem would occour to me...
I've read a long time ago, that since 2009 newer hard drive models can be formatted into 4096 byte allocation sectors.
This Western Digital Gold series hard drive sheet shows even the newest hard drives still having ''only'' 4K physical bytes per sector.
Why and how then in Windows hard drive management You have the option to format hard drives into 64K sectors? If the sector size is limited by the physical specifications of the hard drive, how in the blue hell can you format above 4K? Or if the hard drive is limited to 512 bytes physical sectors, how can you format above 512 bytes?
I have a 4 TB Seagate Enterprise hard drive, which is rated at 4K allocation by default. I am using it for movies only, so i obviously and ideally i ''would like'' to format it to the biggest sector size possible..
I've read a long time ago, that since 2009 newer hard drive models can be formatted into 4096 byte allocation sectors.
This Western Digital Gold series hard drive sheet shows even the newest hard drives still having ''only'' 4K physical bytes per sector.
Why and how then in Windows hard drive management You have the option to format hard drives into 64K sectors? If the sector size is limited by the physical specifications of the hard drive, how in the blue hell can you format above 4K? Or if the hard drive is limited to 512 bytes physical sectors, how can you format above 512 bytes?
I have a 4 TB Seagate Enterprise hard drive, which is rated at 4K allocation by default. I am using it for movies only, so i obviously and ideally i ''would like'' to format it to the biggest sector size possible..