Linux Not Fully Prepared for 4096-Byte Sector Hard Drives – OSnewsHome > Linux > Linux Not Fully Prepared for 4096-Byte Sector Hard Drives Recently, I bought a pair of those new Western Digital Caviar Green drives. These new drives represent a transitional point from 512-byte sectors to 4096-byte sectors. A number of articles have been published recently about this, explaining the benefits and some of the challenges that we’ll be facing during this transition. R
