Am Fri, 01 Mar 2013 02:02:16 +0100
schrieb Piotr Szturmaj <[email protected]>:

> Anytime you read one byte from typical hard disk, system reads full 
> sector - typically 512 bytes, no more, no less.

Side note: HDD manufacturers recently switched to 4 KiB
sectors (8x size). Everyone who bypasses operating system
buffers to do raw disk access now needs to query the
system for optimal buffer alignment.

-- 
Marco

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