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I don't have benchmarks to show off.
But HDD vendors say 4kb native is more efficient or as a matter or fact any type of native formatting... that is, if your drive is native 512, that's what it is best for. https://www.seagate.com/tech-insight...ves-master-ti/
foir instance, from linux fdisk you could get something like:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
so According to that, you do loose performance based on an emulation layer carried out by the HDD firmware... now how discernable is that? maybe it is undiscernable as it is the case with most computer technologies.... most new (if not all) hdds are capable of 512e which is what w7 runs so no need to worry about that.
As for me, I'm sticking with w7 due to better desktop experience, and no default spyware that you only become aware of years after you've been running it... But if I needed performance for server I'd choose w10 with no doubt.