Hitachi也要出先進格式化硬碟了嗎？
 

剛才到HGST網站下載東西時，發現多了一個Hitachi Align Tool (還未開放下載)。
看了一下似乎跟wd align差不多？
不曉得Hitachi是不是要出先進格式化硬碟了？


http://www.hitachigst.com/support/downloads/#ALIGN

Hitachi Align Tool
Most modern operating systems have been designed to work efficiently with Advanced Format drives. For optimum performance, it is important to ensure that the drive is partitioned correctly and that data is written in 4K blocks by both the operating system, and the application. Modern operating systems handle this automatically. When using Advanced Format drives in legacy environments, special tools may be required to optimize read/write performance and keep the data sectors aligned. Users who have created a misaligned partition may download the Windows utility below to correct this condition by re-aligning the partition.

Hitachi Align Tool (Available beginning October 18, 2010)

Instructions for using the Hitachi Align Tool (Available beginning October 18, 2010)

Notes

This tool is compatible with Windows operating systems.

For more information about Advanced Format Drives, please read the Advanced Format Technology Brief

For best performance, it is recommended that the hard drive be partitioned correctly upon first use, by using either a modern operating system or Advanced Format-aware partitioning software. Several third-party software options are listed on the last page of the Advanced Format Technology Brief.

翻了一下，是2.5吋的新款7K750......

http://www.hitachigst.com/internal-...ravelstar-7k750

Advanced Format, industry standard 4K sector size

雖說有對齊工具

但我想仍不適合用在 WinXP

否則會有 Write Response Time 過長的問題

咦！可以張貼網址了，例如 WD BPVT 系列就有上述問題

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/st...up_8.html#sect0

以目前市場的趨勢，我們是不是應該要庫存一些沒有先進格式化的硬碟啊？

還有Travelstar 5K750也是~
單碟375GB~
然後都先進格式化Orz





難道最近2TB常缺貨就是因為這樣?XD|||

沒辦法啊，因為全球硬碟廠商WD、Seagate、Hitachi、Samsung、Toshiba有簽協議書，2011年之前要在市場上導入 Advanced Format，要有實際商業產品在市面上販售。

檯面上目前推出3TB的硬碟廠商(Seagate、WD、Samsung)全部都是 Advanced Format，只不過對應XP等舊作業系統方法不同......

推出實體sector = 4KB本來是好事一件，

但丁丁格式化(advanced format)的壞處就在於
虛擬出sector = 8個512B

美其名是為了達到相容性、平順移轉…

但問題就出在這！

要玩就該玩真的，支持實體sector = 4KB，但不要虛擬出sector = 8個512B
請買硬碟的人心裡有數，
該硬碟不能用在舊的作業系統和Symantec Ghost之類的軟體。

這對還在用XP的人可能是對的, 但對Win7的用戶沒分別。

為什麼還要堅持抱著XP不放
用過Win7後我就不會再回去想用XP了