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Discussions about sector size on WindowsForum.com cover the difference between physical and logical sector sizes, especially for Advanced Format disks with 4 KB physical sectors. Users ask about recommended cluster and sector sizes for large NTFS volumes (e.g., 4TB or 6TB) to optimize random access speed. Compatibility issues arise when mixing disks with different sector sizes in RAID configurations, leading to errors. Microsoft hotfixes and updates for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 improve support for Advanced Format disks and add new information classes like FileFsSectorSizeInformation to report physical and logical sector sizes. These topics are relevant for storage performance, RAID setup, and system compatibility.
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    Recommended cluster vs. sector size for 6TB hard disk? Diff? Optimize random access speed

    Whats the recommended cluster and sector size for 4TB or 6TB hard disk (formatted with NTFS)? It should be optimized for random access speed. Whats the difference between cluster and sector size at all? And which one has more impact on the random access speed? Toby
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    • cluster size disk formatting file system hard drive ntfs optimization performance random access sector size storage
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    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    You receive an error when building a RAID volume using disks with different sector sizes

    When you try to configure a RAID volume using disks with different sector sizes [such as between an Advanced Format disk (4-KB physical block size though 512 bytes on logical) and a non-Advanced Format disk (512 physical block size).], you receive the... Link Removed
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    • advanced format configuration disk error logical block physical block raid sector size storage volume
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    • Forum: Knowledge Base (KB)
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    A hotfix is available that adds the FileFsSectorSizeInformation information class to Windows 7 and t

    Describe a hotfix that adds a new information class to Windows 7 and to Windows Server 2008 R2. This information class is used to return a "FILE_FS_SECTOR_SIZE_INFORMATION" structure that contains information about the physical and logical sector sizes... More...
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    • file system hotfix information kb article microsoft sector size tech support update windows 7 windows server
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    • Forum: Knowledge Base (KB)
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    An update that improves the compatibility of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Advanced Form

    This article describes an update that improves the interoperability of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Advanced Format Disks that have a 4 KB physical sector size. More...
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    • 4 kb advanced format compatibility disk management interoperability sector size update windows 7 windows server
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    • Forum: Knowledge Base (KB)
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