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Advanced Format and 320 SSD

idata — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:40:56 GMT

hi,

i was reading up on the advanced format feature resulting in a 4k sector size

now i ran fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c: on my 320 ssd and saw that the sector size is 512

i would have expected it to be 4096

so what's the deal?

tia,

Marc

Re: Advanced Format and 320 SSD

idata — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:24:47 GMT

It is a little confusing but Windows doesn't actually support 4K sectors natively, only 4K sector drives that emulate 512 sector drives (which all current 4K drives do). So, you are seeing bytes per sector (logical) which the drive is reporting for compatibility purposes. You want to look at bytes per physical sector. There is an updated FSUTIL available as explained quite well http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2011/04/26/using-4k-sector-and-advanced-format-drives-in-windows-hotfix-and-support-info-for-windows-server-2008-r2-and-windows-7.aspx here.

Re: Advanced Format and 320 SSD

idata — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:35:50 GMT

i used fsutil and it reported the physical sector size as being 512

so i guess i have the latest fsutil (6.1.7601.17577) (W7 sp1)

so i guess the question remains...

Re: Advanced Format and 320 SSD

idata — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:14:57 GMT

The fact that fsutil reports Physical Sector Size at all means you have the correct version. I just checked a new Intel X25-M using either Windows native driver or Intel RST and I experience the same thing: fsutil reports both physical and logical sector size report as 512. I though all SSDs were 4K physical sector size. So, as you say the question remains...