We're sure you've heard the hubbub about the upcoming 4K Advanced Format for hard disks, especially as it's likely every new high capacity hard disk product shipping by the end of this year will ...

WD (Western Digital) is starting to use a new hard disk drive format that enables 7-11% greater capacity on hard disk drives. The disk expansion technique is known as Advanced Format. This technique ...

Starting in Q1 this year, all new hard drive models will contain the "big sector" footprint that Western Digital launched late last year with its "4k advanced format" 'EARS' drives. After dropping ...

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 drives have began incorporating a new type of formatting technology, which will allow them to run faster, support larger capacities and improve overall storage capabilities by using a ...

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 ...

Western Digital‘s come up with a fancy new way to format hard drives—changing sector sizes to 4KB that use a pooled Sync/DAM header and ECC blocks—that promises to give back 7 to 11 percent of hard ...