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Author Topic: New WD drives with "advanced formatting"  (Read 3704 times)

mcmillion

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New WD drives with "advanced formatting"
« on: February 15, 2010, 07:45:12 AM »
Has anyone used Western Digital's recent 1T, 1.5T or 2T Caviar Green drives in the DNS-323?  WD is now turning out drives with "advanced formatting" which changes the sector size to allow larger capacities.  For more info see:  http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/  

The new sectoring makes these drive incompatible with WinXP until you jumper a couple of pins or run the "WD Align" utility.  No mods are required for Vista or 7.  

Some sources say this does not affect Linux, but I can't find much info on this.  So, I'm wondering about compatability with my DNS-323's
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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: New WD drives with "advanced formatting"
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2010, 08:12:17 AM »
Somewhere in these forums is a post about someone that successfully installed them, either in a DNS-321 or DNS-323.  Try the search feature.
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beefy314

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Re: New WD drives with "advanced formatting"
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2010, 08:29:52 PM »
No problem using the new WD drive on my dns 323 wd10ears 64mb cache
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