On Tuesday 09 February 2010 22:13:39 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: <snipped> > When I use parted on the drives, it says (both the old external and my 2 > months old internal): > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > So no speedup for me then. :-/ >
That doesn't mean a thing, I'm afraid. I have the 4KB drives (product-code and behaviour match) and parted also claims my drives have a 512B logical/physical sector size.