Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Mar 12 11:12:57 CST 2010
Then you have to ask yourself... will Access still work? -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 8:22 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] So you are holding on to your XP...think again **************************** To help Windows XP cope, advanced format drives will be able to pretend they still use sectors 512 bytes in size. "All other things being equal you will have a noticeable hard drive reduction in performance," said Mr Burks, adding that, in some circumstances, it could make a drive 10% slower. **************************** I can live with that. Until W7 SP3 when they make it REALLY work with Access. R -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 8:05 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] So you are holding on to your XP...think again There is now a fundimental change in the hard drive industry. The new technology is going to change the sectors size from 512 to 4096. All the newer OSs are aware of this change but XP is not... so if a hard drive fails you might just be out of luck. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8557144.stm Jim _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 270.14.129/2605 - Release Date: 03/12/10 01:42:00 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com