13 Bitlocker won't initialize on a 4TB drive with 4K sectors 2013-05-05T14:35:11.433

13 What's the point of hard drives reporting their physical sector size? 2015-10-06T00:08:45.553

11 Why are 4k reads in hdd/ssd benchmarks slower than writes? 2016-08-02T23:19:51.273

9 How do I test to see if all writes to my hard drive are aligned to its 4k sectors? 2011-09-21T15:50:32.333

9 How would I force Debian to use the physical sector size on a hard disk? 2012-06-30T19:14:14.577

7 Is it possible to set the logical sector size of a USB hard disk drive? 2012-08-20T14:20:40.363

6 Is my OCZ SSD aligned correctly? 2011-06-23T17:44:11.350

6 Migrate Win7 upgrade from 63 sector to 4096 sector advanced format disk 2012-03-14T14:49:18.770

6 How can I get the physical sector size of a drive that doesn't have any recognized volumes? 2016-02-15T01:14:39.120

5 Advanced format partition alignment 2012-01-08T04:58:49.257

5 Is it safe to overwrite LBA 2-2047 2012-09-08T04:20:00.660

5 Partition table independent of sector size 2012-10-13T21:55:56.803

4 Filesystem config for 4k sector drive that reports 512 byte sectors 2011-06-11T06:52:37.763

4 Are 4k sectors more efficient for hard disk data transfer? 2011-06-11T06:58:16.857

4 How to Clone Win7 from 512b sectors to 4096b sectors 2011-07-21T07:39:40.973

4 What causes this HDD sector damage pattern? 2016-03-19T15:19:59.823

3 Does the advanced format tool bundled by manufacturers actually do anything which mkntfs doesn't? 2010-12-22T12:02:04.407

3 Can Windows XP be installed on a partition that starts at sector 64 (on Advanced Format 4k drives)? 2011-02-06T14:38:23.647

3 logical sector size changes depending on whether it is attached via USB or direct SATA 2012-04-10T03:00:59.690

3 What is my miniport's service name? 2012-11-22T16:33:18.590

3 Windows 7, raid 1 with advanced format drive 2012-12-29T16:52:13.580

3 Hard Drive Advance Format 512e Compatibility with 4K Native OS 2013-04-02T12:26:09.203

3 4k emulation sata usb controllers 2017-11-26T16:00:47.370

2 Are there partition recovery software available that support 4k sector drives? 2011-08-24T13:38:18.817

2 MacOSX: Truecrypt partition on HDDs with larger sector size than 512 bytes 2012-08-10T12:29:25.550

2 4k hard drives freebsd gpart and zfs 2013-06-17T13:19:41.040

2 Extended partition does not start on physical sector boundary on 512e (emulated 4k) hard-drive 2014-07-14T07:17:58.223

1 Performance of RAID 5 with mdadm 2011-09-17T13:23:22.137

1 Partitioning Options for Advanced Format drive 2013-01-10T07:21:12.790

1 Cloning a 512 sector size to Advanced Format WD Black drive 2014-05-19T01:49:29.797

1 512B to 4KiB (Advanced Format) HDD cloning with dd 2015-05-28T12:03:30.307

1 Freeware MBR to GPT conversion in Windows without data loss 2015-10-21T09:09:56.530

1 Advanced format 2016-03-27T16:30:53.673

1 Will 4096 bytes alignment benefit on SSD with 512 bytes sector size? 2016-03-28T23:38:09.873

1 HGST 4kn support on Windows 10 with Z97 and Asmedia? 2016-06-30T01:21:55.300

1 Do new USB flash drives use advanced format (AF)? 2017-03-10T15:14:38.360

1 Office 2010: Customizing keyboard shortcuts for advanced find options 2017-12-10T05:00:56.613

1 Determining the bs value for dd 2018-01-24T23:04:35.603

1 Trouble figuring out optimal alignment of multiple partitions on a 931.5 GiB external Advanced Format HDD while in Linux 2018-02-02T17:13:38.557

1 Unable to read contents on an Advanced Format disk when using some USB docking stations 2018-10-29T21:57:13.943

0 Why is my magnetic hard drive exceedingly slow? 2011-11-02T23:41:21.297

0 Getting advanced format drives to like new? 2012-05-16T20:02:57.700

0 3TB HDD showing 512 logical sector size when connected via SATA 2013-06-13T00:57:29.093

0 What defines the signature of a bootsector? 2013-08-30T23:06:22.023

0 Is it safe to force a dismount to format a volume in Windows? 2014-06-02T21:17:52.013

0 Time format of Pomodoro in LibreOffice Calc 2015-03-03T14:41:55.923

0 1-byte file takes up 2 MB (yes, megabytes) on 6 TB exFAT Veracrypt volume. Why? 2017-11-29T19:30:31.693

0 Is it possible for the filesystem's logical block size to be less than the physical sector size? 2018-05-28T06:47:20.070

0 How to remove files and personal information from computer? 2019-01-01T19:17:53.070

0 Read data from Advanced Format disk over USB adapter 2019-01-12T16:50:55.690

-1 Older HP SAS drives and Advanced Format? 2016-03-18T12:51:38.530