There hasn’t been an enormous deal of news concerning it so far but soon our hard drives will never be the same again.
At the moment, our hard disc drives are formatted into 512 byte size blocks and have been that way for years but as from the first quarter of next year hard drive suppliers will start delivery hard drives with 4 K disc sizes.
All hard drive suppliers have determined to adopt the 4 K size by the end of January subsequently year through the International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA).
IDEMA has set up BigSector dot org which is a “consortium of foremost storage industry software and hardware companies formed to provide the industry with guidance and support for implementing better physical sector sizes” says the site.
