From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 19 22:36:42 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6D3106566B for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:36:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mj@feral.com) Received: from ns1.feral.com (ns1.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBE78FC12 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:36:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.1.34] (float34.in1.lcl [172.16.1.34]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.feral.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pBJMafJY033458 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:36:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj@feral.com) Message-ID: <4EEFBC74.4030109@feral.com> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:36:36 -0800 From: Matthew Jacob Organization: Feral Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <42198.1324333342@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <42198.1324333342@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (ns1.feral.com [192.67.166.1]); Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:36:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mj@feral.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:36:42 -0000 Putting it better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Read_disturb