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- From: m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling)
- Subject: Re: What's a better block size for a Fuji 520M drive?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.013435.15349@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Aug18.231820.948@convex.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 01:34:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.231820.948@convex.com> finger@convex.com (Jay
- Finger) writes:
- > Will the NeXT support sector sizes greater than 1024 bytes? Since the
- sd
- > driver reads/writes 8K chunks, might one find even better performance
- with
- > 8K sectors?
-
- If the disk could do it, and the computer could do it, 8K blocks would be
- faster (not much) and increase capacity (again not much). But unless you
- have just a few files each of which is quite large, that is not an
- efficient way to use space. Also, I don't know of any drives which support
- 8K blocks. NeXT's current software supports 512 byte or 1024 byte blocks,
- and I haven't heard anything that would suggest that they are considering
- changing that.
-
- M Carling
- Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
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