3TB disc and block alignment

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Feb 17), Daniel Kalchev said:
> >>> da0:<Hitachi HUA723030ALA640>  Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
> >>> da0: 2861588MB (5860533168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 364801C)
> >
> > Thanks -- is it also possible to have something like
> >
> > da0: 2861588MB (732566646 4096 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 364801C)
>
> According to Hitachi, this is an 512b drive.

Correct.  This isn't a 4k drive.  Datasheet:

http://www.hgst.com/internal-drives/enterprise/ultrastar/ultrastar-7k3000

Sector size (variable, Bytes/sector)  	512 

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com