We're sure you've heard the hubbub about the upcoming 4K Advanced Format for hard disks, especially as it's likely every new high capacity hard disk product shipping by the end of this year will ...

WD (Western Digital) is starting to use a new hard disk drive format that enables 7-11% greater capacity on hard disk drives. The disk expansion technique is known as Advanced Format. This technique ...

I'm woefully out of date with my knowledge of hard drive technology, and I missed this whole transition. Based on my uninformed researching, Advanced Format 512e drives use 4K sectors, like any other ...

A lot has been written and discussed regarding Advanced Format. It's the wave of the future for hard drives, but there's still a lot of mystery surrounding it. Many people have brushed it aside since ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Reminising of the funny ole' DriveSpace' days way back where it would work supposed magic to double the capacity of your hard drive (only for many to find ...

It seems more and more likely I may end up with an advanced format drive the next time I add space to my WHS. It sounds like I should be able to create the partitions on a Windows 7 machine first and ...

Western Digital drives have began incorporating a new type of formatting technology, which will allow them to run faster, support larger capacities and improve overall storage capabilities by using a ...

Western Digital‘s come up with a fancy new way to format hard drives—changing sector sizes to 4KB that use a pooled Sync/DAM header and ECC blocks—that promises to give back 7 to 11 percent of hard ...

Sure, you may have been able to double your hard drive's storage space with DriveSpace back in the day, but it looks like Western Digital has now come up with a new, more foolproof way to eek out a ...

Performance in Windows 7, where the drives are natively accessed in 4KB sectors, saw a doubling in performance in 4KB read and write over the older 512B drive. In fact, the new EARS disk was almost ...