So I bought one of these popular Advanced Format drives to use with WHS. Used Data Life Guard to scan the whole drive while connected via USB, formatted it in NTFS so my RocketRaid 2320 controller ...

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 ...

Western Digital recently began to ship a new series of Caviar hard drives that included the company's Advanced Format technology. The new Caviar Green models are nearly identical to their standard ...

I'm woefully out of date with my knowledge of hard drive technology, and I missed this whole transition.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 ...

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 out soon after their data would crumble ...

With the advent of Advanced Format drives and their new 4K low-level sectoring scheme a new, performance-robbing phenomenon known as misaligned partitions has shown up. Paragon Software’s $30 Paragon ...

If you’re installing a new hard drive, or need to wipe your drive clean for that “fresh” feeling, you’ll end up formatting your drive. Formatting will check the drive for errors, and prepare it for ...

For years notebook users looking for desktop like performance were forced to purchase notebooks that used desktop components like processors and hard drives. The notebook main board and processor have ...

All this is assuming you can still boot into Windows 11/10 in a regular way. If you cannot, the only way is to use a bootable USB drive. You can then use the advanced recovery. Reset Windows Format ...

“Format” as a word in computers is very popular, and a well-known word among computer users. We all have done that, especially with USB drives. That said, what people are sometimes afraid of is when ...