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December 11th, 2009, 23:05
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/500x_hdhead.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/hdhead.jpg)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 drive space.
The catch is that if you wanna use this new hard drive format, it requires you performing a clean install of your OS. Other drive manufacturers are looking at this up, so everybody might get to benefit from Advanced Formatting and the extra space. Hoo-ray. [WD (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/) via PC Perspective (http://macnn.com/rd/147997==http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=8113) via Electronista (http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/12/11/wd.advanced.format.expands.capacity/), Image via Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hdhead.jpg)]
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The catch is that if you wanna use this new hard drive format, it requires you performing a clean install of your OS. Other drive manufacturers are looking at this up, so everybody might get to benefit from Advanced Formatting and the extra space. Hoo-ray. [WD (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/) via PC Perspective (http://macnn.com/rd/147997==http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=8113) via Electronista (http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/12/11/wd.advanced.format.expands.capacity/), Image via Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hdhead.jpg)]
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