They are not advanced format drives.
Advanced format drives have 4k sectors instead of 512-byte sectors. Having 4k instead of 512-byte sectors facilitates error correction.
Windows XP cannot partition advanced format drives properly to align the partition on a 4k boundary. Vista and Windows 7 have no problem with these newer drives. So if you want to use an advanced-format drive under Windows XP just partition it under Vista or Windows 7.
That's my understanding. Someone else may know more or better than I do.
had to pick up an extra one from newegg. Thanks op. I just grabbed this as well.
http://www.amazon.com/Sans-Digital-E...pr_product_top
Funny my order made the price go up from 499 to 518.75 lol
Advanced format drives have 4k sectors instead of 512-byte sectors. Having 4k instead of 512-byte sectors facilitates error correction.
Windows XP cannot partition advanced format drives properly to align the partition on a 4k boundary. Vista and Windows 7 have no problem with these newer drives. So if you want to use an advanced-format drive under Windows XP just partition it under Vista or Windows 7.
That's my understanding. Someone else may know more or better than I do.
Except WHS adds another fly into the ointment. Even if you partition an AF drive on Win7, with a properly aligned partition, when you add it to a WHS storage pool, it re-partitions and re-formats the drive. With a 63-sector offset that hearkens back to DOS days (XP style).
The only way around that, seems to be the jumper that WD puts on their drives. I don't know if they have a patent on the offset +1 jumper or what, but no other mfg of advanced-format drives has a jumper it seems.