I think the biggest reason to make the move to 4k sectors
isn't just the ECC. Its also about data density on the
disk itself. If you add up all the overhead around the
512 sector sizes (Sync/DAM, sector gap, etc) compared to
that around 4k sectors there is less "wasted" disk and so
inevitably means you can squeeze more writeable space out
of a disk.
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