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Flossman

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What is advanced format? My WD hard drive will not be my boot drive so do i need to advanced format it? Also, does my SSD need to be advanced formatted?

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This is not something you need to be concerned with! It is automatic with very large drive and is not something the end user "does" to format. Simply use Disk Manager and format both SSD and HD as normal. This is from a 2011 Tom's Hardware article:

"Using larger sector capacities introduces certain benefits for the hard drive makers, and is typically transparent for the end-user--but only as long as that user installs a modern operating system like Windows 7 or Vista with SP1 and up. Older Windows versions can suffer from performance troubles on 4 KB sector drives."

Here is a link to the article:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/advanced-format-4k-sector-size-hard-drive,2759.html
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avjguy2362

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This is not something you need to be concerned with! It is automatic with very large drive and is not something the end user "does" to format. Simply use Disk Manager and format both SSD and HD as normal. This is from a 2011 Tom's Hardware article:

"Using larger sector capacities introduces certain benefits for the hard drive makers, and is typically transparent for the end-user--but only as long as that user installs a modern operating system like Windows 7 or Vista with SP1 and up. Older Windows versions can suffer from performance troubles on 4 KB sector drives."

Here is a link to the article:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/advanced-format-4k-sector-size-hard-drive,2759.html
 
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