As stated in the article (trying to get our attention with the title) the drives will be backward compatible.
"New drives using the 4KB format will be able to mimic 512-byte sectors, but performance may be affected in certain write situations, introducing a delay of approximately 5ms. (Reading data should not take any longer.) In the BBC story, David Burks, a product marketing manager for Seagate, estimates that in some cases the performance hit could be as much as 10 percent".
Alan
-- Edited by NicKnayme on Wednesday 10th of March 2010 02:09:34 PM
