Re: Seagate ST15150N formatting weirdness (SOLVED)

[Marc SCHAEFER]

On Wed, 14 Jul 1999,  Raymond A. Ingles wrote:

>  Is there any performance reason why I wouldn't want the drive at 256
> bytes/sector?

Yes: each sector has usually 24 bytes of CRC information, e.g. 536
bytes/sector, 512 being usable. This is around 5% space and performance
loss.

At 256 bytes/sector, this becomes 10% space and performance loss.

This is approximate mathematic.



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