
3 512e and 4Kn Disk Formats
Contents
1 Overview ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
2 Background ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
3 The long-term benefit of 4K sectors ........................................................................................................................................ 6
4 Understanding the impacts of the 4K transition..................................................................................................................... 6
4.1 512-byte sector emulation ............................................................................................................................................... 6
4.2 Small or runt writes ............................................................................................................................................................ 8
4.3 Mixing drives ........................................................................................................................................................................ 9
5 Preparing for and managing the 4K transition ........................................................................................................................ 9
5.1 Managing 4K sectors in the Windows environment ................................................................................................... 9
5.2 Enterprise Windows support for 4K sector media ...................................................................................................... 9
5.3 Managing 4K sectors in the Linux environment ........................................................................................................ 10
5.4 VMware support ............................................................................................................................................................... 10
5.5 Dealing with unaligned conditions ................................................................................................................................ 11
5.6 512e/4Kn application support ........................................................................................................................................ 11
6 Drive labels ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
7 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
8 Additional resources .................................................................................................................................................................... 12
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