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This really isn’t a big deal.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=17869
[quote] Overall, experts estimate users will take a 10 percent performance hit.[/quote]
It won’t be implemented until 2011 which makes Windows XP and Server 2003 10 and 8 years old (respectively) by then.
If you just added a new drive as storage on a WHS box, I doubt you’ll notice. Obviously if it was the boot drive on an XP based desktop you’d care. But if it can run Windows 7, just move to Windows 7. Or if the machine is too old to run Windows 7, it is rather unlikely you’d be bothering to stick a new 2TB drive in it.
The gains for all other modern OSes will be nice. This especially can help certain SSDs based on a few common controllers.
Anandtech touched on the 4k sector impact in their recent review of the new WD SSD.
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3757&p=5
Also here’s some more info on WD’s solution for the sector differences that they are shipping on their new 4K enabled hard drives right now:
http://hothardware.com/Articles/WDs-1TB-Caviar-Green-w-Advanced-Format-Windows-XP-Users-Pay-Attention/
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