Re: * informant * large drives

[lensman3]

sectors are the smallest groups characters (bytes) accessible at one time on the disk.  There are different sector sizes dependent on several factors. These factors are related to operating system, BIOS, disk size... I think that's it. So its     4096-byte      sectors   (small sectors). These sectors have a average loss of 2048 Bytes per file, where the file is not exactly one sector in length. Some files wil be close to a sector boundary at the bottom end, resulting in large loss, some will be close to the boundary at the large end, thus an average loss of 1/2 a sector. Can't be helped. Unless you like UNIX. If you use 16K sectors, then the average loss per file is 8KB. Multiply those by the number of files on the drive to get the storage loss related to sector size. ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 5:45 PM Subject: Re: * informant * large drives OK I lied,one more,please,do I have to bother with BYTE sectors? Should I know what thery are? --- Sponsor's Message -------------------------------------- Wanna Throw That PC Out the Window? Not yet. First, check our technology forum for help. http://click.topica.com/aaaa4Ob1dhsJb1LEked/rebootmypc ------------------------------------------------------------ ---- post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://theMezz.com/informant forum: http://theMezz.com/bbs subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] notDigest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01