At 3/13/2010 11:54, you wrote: >The hard drive manufacturers are changing >the native drive sector size... industry wide. >Since XP and 2000 are frozen (no more major >updates) they are going to take a performance >hit. > >See ><http://www.dailytech.com/HDD+Makers+Adopt+Improved+Storage+Format+Windows+XP+Users+Beware/article17869.htm>
If the performance degradation ends up being significant, don't be surprised to see 3rd party "native" support for the 4k block size appear, similar to the non-Microsoft USB drivers for NT 4.0. Bob NO6B
