Block size set to grow

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Mar 29, 20061 min

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Storage Weblog: Block size set to grow, 03/28/06

The International Disk Drive, Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA) is proposing that the 512-byte disk block size be increased to 4K-bytes, more than eight times the present size. That means that disk drives will be able to store more data and …

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