Bob Dorr - Principal SQL Server Escalation Engineer – submitted a blog about the new Advanced Format Technology for disk drives a few days ago that’s worth reading. I anticipate that there will be a lot of information in the coming weeks on how SQL Server works with the new standard for hard drive sectors. Check out his blog, and do some searches on 512e and Advanced Format Sector sizes as he suggests…I found pretty interesting reading.
Kinda makes me want to go out and buy one of the new drives and do some testing on this.
Lee Everest
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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2011/01/13/sql-server-new-drives-use-4k-sector-size.aspx
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/whitepapers/eng/2579-771430.pdf
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