December 11, 200916 yr I was surfing the net today and i stumbled upon this article : http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/western-digital-advanced-format-promises-slight-boost-in-usabl/ The new internal formatting of the drive allows of 7-11% more usable space, wich would be great on 1TB, 1,5TB and 2TB drives. More info here : http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=8113
December 11, 200916 yr I was surfing the net today and i stumbled upon this article : http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/western-digital-advanced-format-promises-slight-boost-in-usabl/ The new internal formatting of the drive allows of 7-11% more usable space, wich would be great on 1TB, 1,5TB and 2TB drives. More info here : http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=8113 You'll need to purchase two to take advantage. One for the parity drive, the other for data.
December 11, 200916 yr Maybe that's why there was a big price drop a few weeks ago! Heck I scored two 1tb drives really cheap.
December 12, 200916 yr And just to be clear for those wondering: Unfortunately, you won't simply be able to update the firmware and reformat your current drive, but WD will apparently be moving its Caviar Green line to the new format in the "next few weeks," and eventually shift the rest of its drives over as well.
December 12, 200916 yr Special drive format my arse. This is 4096 byte sectors vs 512 byte sectors, which all of the big HDD manufacturers signed upto wayback in 2003, the original proposal from the IDEMA was first drafted back in 2000. MS were petitioned in 2003 for longhorn to support 4096 byte sectors. Win7 arrives and is designed to support SSDs which have guess what size sectors or pages? Yep 4KB and we finally see a HDD ship with a "new advanced format" system ten years after the draft proposal. Innovative indeed.
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