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    512e and 4Kn Disk Formats This paper provides the context for 512e and 4Kn disk format migration, as well as pointing out the long-term benefits to customers and potential pitfalls to avoid when moving from 512-byte to 4K sector formats. Dell Engineering December 2013 A Dell Technical White Paper
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    THIS WHITE PAPER IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND MAY CONTAIN TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND TECHNICAL INACCURACIES. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. © 2013 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of this material in any manner whatsoever without
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    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
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    1 Overview A change is coming in the hard drive industry. As storage densities dramatically increase, one of the most elemental aspects of hard drive design - the logical block format size known as a sector - has remained constant. The storage industry is quickly ramping up efforts to transition to
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    2 Background The legacy sector format contains a Gap section, a Sync section, an Address Mark section, a Data section and Error Correction Code (ECC) section as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 Legacy sector format The sector layout is structured as follows: • Gap"section:"The"gap"separates"sectors. •
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    are a system builder, OEM, integrator, IT professional or end user building or configuring a computer, to ensure you have the performance you need or utilities you are using are 4K-sector aware, check with your Dell team. 512-byte sector emulation The introduction of 4K-sized sectors depends
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    512-byte emulation The process of reading the 4K block of data and reformatting to the specific 512-byte emulated sector requested by the host computer is performed in the drive's DRAM memory and does not measurably impact performance. A write process will be more complicated, particularly when data
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    the size of the disk. The host requests a specific block of data using the assigned LBA. When the host requests to write data, an LBA address is returned at the end of the write request telling the host where the same way. Dell recommends modifying these processes to maximize performance for the 4K transition.
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    as boot disks in UEFI mode) Note that Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 do not support 512e or 4Kn media. While the system may boot up and operate minimally, there may be functionality issues, data loss, or suboptimal performance. Dell does not recommend using 512e media with Windows
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    widely used by system builders, OEMs, value-added resellers, and IT managers for aligning partitions when the operating system doesn't offer or support partition alignment out of the box. Systems today typically consist of multiple hard drive partitions. This means that each partition on the hard
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    adds steps to the system building or upgrading process. Ultimately, Dell will develop more sophisticated methods and design systems to manage Yes Yes VDI Yes No Comments 4Kn support ~2014* 4Kn support ~2015** *It is more of supportability issue that Microsoft has not fully tested/validated
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    sectors used in Advanced Format is performance. Whether you are building or configuring a computer, do the following to ensure optimal performance: • Use" "hard"drive"partitions;"verify"with"your"Dell"team"to" ensure"the"products"you're"using"have"been"updated"and"confirmed"to"be"4K Together with
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A Dell Technical White Paper
512e and 4Kn Disk Formats
This paper provides the context for 512e and 4Kn disk format
migration, as well as pointing out the long-term benefits to
customers and potential pitfalls to avoid when moving from
512-byte to 4K sector formats.
Dell Engineering
December 2013