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WD Company declared about the use of new formatting technology : Advanced format, which allow to increase the hard allows capacity due to the more economical disks utilization .
At present data are located in sectors with the size of At present, WD they decided to pass to the sectors, in which is placed 4096 bytes. Between the sectors there are spaces, each sector begins with sync/DAM (introductory record), and has ECC field (information for errors correction application of advanced format technology allow to use one field sync/DAM instead of eight, one field ECC instead of eight. This ensures gain by approximately 7-11% of useful disk space.
Advanced format disks also better preserve data integrity , since they adapt the more effective errors correction system . The size of the sector in 512 bytes was standard for more than 30 years.
The technology advanced format is compatible with the majority of contemporary operating systems, including Windows 7 and Mac OS. Windows XP Users can download from WD the program WD aligns, which ensures the valuable work of disk with the technology advanced format under control of this OS.
In the next weeks, the company will transfer to the new size caviar green, and with time the remaining HDD. Related Products :
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