What are advanced format drives?

[Sasinda98]

What are advanced storage drives? What makes them different to normal drives?

[Guest]

Are you building a new PC? For what reason?

[Altecice]

No such thing as drives made for 'advanced formats'. Any disk can take any format so long as its formatted correctly.

[Captain_WD]

What are advanced storage drives? What makes them different to normal drives?

 

Hey Sasinda98,

 

Advanced format is used in drives to deliver higher capacities. Some older OSs and system do not support that. Here's some more info on the matter: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=DCDiZK

Feel free to ask if you happen to have questions.

 

Captain_WD.

[MG2R]

 

http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=DCDiZK

 

Might just be my end, bu that link didn't work for me. Here's what it tried redirecting to: http://www.wdc.com/global/products/features/?id=7

 

Or, if you prefer a wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format

 

The gist of it: Advanced Format is a term portraying that the disk has sectors which exceed 512 bytes in size. This is needed to achieve higher disk capacities (beyond 2TB IIRC)

[Captain_WD]

Might just be my end, bu that link didn't work for me. Here's what it tried redirecting to: http://www.wdc.com/global/products/features/?id=7

 

Or, if you prefer a wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format

 

The gist of it: Advanced Format is a term portraying that the disk has sectors which exceed 512 bytes in size. This is needed to achieve higher disk capacities (beyond 2TB IIRC)

 

Generally, that is correct. It basically means that sectors are larger than 512 bytes and thus drives are achieving larger storage size in general.

 

Captain_WD.