Thread: What Hard Disk Drive?
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Old 15-04-2011, 19:00   #8
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Re: What Hard Disk Drive?
The Western Digital is "advanced format", so some care is needed to avoid losing performance due to 4k clusters not aligned with 4k sectors. Windows 7 should format appropriately for advanced format - I think there was a patch for XP, but I can't find it right now.
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