Francisco Tapia
fhtapia at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 17:43:54 CDT 2004
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:01:05 -0400, John W. Colby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > I have purchased new disks to build this new SQL Server database on. I > believe I have read that SQL Server uses 8k block sizes internally. Is it > useful to format the hard disk to 8K sectors so that the SQL blocks map to > sectors directly? Does anyone know if this helps or hinders? Although Sql Server uses 8k block sizes internally I've never heard on any list that it's a good idea to format your hdd that way... so I'd say nope. -- -Francisco