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Drobo, XP Users: Beware of 4K “Advanced Format” Drives!

December 23, 2009 By Stephen 4 Comments

Western Digital is first to market with "Advanced Format" 4K-sector drives

Personal computer hard disk drive access methods have repeatedly been forced to adapt to ever-expanding capacity. Physical (CHS) addressing and 28-bit LBA have been abandoned, but the disk drives themselves retain the tiny 512-byte sectors they have had since IBM introduced fixed-block addressing in the 1970's. But time marches on, and Western Digital is leading the change to … [Read more...] about Drobo, XP Users: Beware of 4K “Advanced Format” Drives!

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