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| Thread ID: 107973 | 2010-03-09 17:39:00 | New HDD format | gary67 (56) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 865346 | 2010-03-09 17:39:00 | The new hard drive formatting coming next year is explained here (news.bbc.co.uk) in simple terms | gary67 (56) | ||
| 865347 | 2010-03-09 18:11:00 | So is it only NEW drives that can use this format or can I reformat my current drives to this new format? | xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 865348 | 2010-03-09 18:40:00 | AFAIK, You can already reformat your current drives in this manner. See attached | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 865349 | 2010-03-09 18:58:00 | ... What's so special here? You could do this since the Win2k days... Or on a RIAD since way back when... |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 865350 | 2010-03-09 20:56:00 | I thought NTFS was 4K by default? I guess this only affects anyone that has FAT16/32 or has changed the sector size themselves. | autechre (266) | ||
| 865351 | 2010-03-09 21:23:00 | Guys... this isn't referring to the filesystem block size, as several posters here seem to think - it's referring to the actual sector size on the HDD. ... What's so special here? You could do this since the Win2k days... Or on a RIAD since way back when...No, you couldn't - nobody was making drives with a 4K sector layout back then. Sure, you could use a filesystem with 4K block allocation, but that's not the same thing. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 865352 | 2010-03-09 21:43:00 | Guys... this isn't referring to the filesystem block size, as several posters here seem to think - it's referring to the actual sector size on the HDD. This. Yes, NTFS and many other disk formats allow you to select the file system cluster size, but the physical sectors on the drives have all been 512Bytes - until now, thanks WD (and presumably Seagate et al will be doing this as well). |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 865353 | 2010-03-09 21:53:00 | Bring on the bigger drives NOW!!! | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 865354 | 2010-03-09 22:11:00 | Ah right, I knew I shouldn't have been posting so early in the morning. It all makes sense now, of course! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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