https://apollo.open-resource.org/ 2026-04-16T16:09:10+00:00 https://apollo.open-resource.org/ https://apollo.open-resource.org/_media/wiki:dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2013-06-30T12:50:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://apollo.open-resource.org/mission:log:2011:01:24:4k-partition-alignment-primer?rev=1372596620&do=diff 4k HDD Partition Alignment Primer Although HDD storage densities have increased dramatically over the years, one of the most elemental aspects of hard disk drive design, the logical block format size known as a sector, has remained constant. Beginning in late 2009, accelerating in 2010 and hitting mainstream in 2011, all major manufacturers are migrating away from the legacy sector size of 512 bytes to a larger, more efficient sector size of 4096 bytes, generally referred to as 4k or AF (Advanc…