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 ...

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 ...

I'm woefully out of date with my knowledge of hard drive technology, and I missed this whole transition. Based on my uninformed researching, Advanced Format 512e drives use 4K sectors, like any other ...

It seems more and more likely I may end up with an advanced format drive the next time I add space to my WHS. It sounds like I should be able to create the partitions on a Windows 7 machine first and ...

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 ...

Sure, you may have been able to double your hard drive's storage space with DriveSpace back in the day, but it looks like Western Digital has now come up with a new, more foolproof way to eek out a ...