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peat moss
12-13-2009, 05:36 PM
While not in the market for a new HDD I found this interesting . Maybe buyers should hold out till the new year ?



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Western Digital says it has developed a technique that provides more usable space out of a given hard drive capacity. Known as Advanced Format, it reduces the amount of overhead for each data sector by pooling together information.


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