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Western Digital Advanced Format?
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I need a hard drive with more space and was thinking about the new WD drives, the 640 or 750 GB BPVT. Has anyone tried one of these yet, with bootcamp? I am wondering if there will be a problem with the advanced format feature. Or even if these drives have that weird park the head problem that some do.
BTW, if you are not familiar with WD's naming scheme, this is a scorpio blue drive at 5400 rpm.
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Advanced format means that it uses 4K sectors (instead of 512 byte sectors which has been the norm since forever). This has no effect if your formatting is done correctly. All test I've seen show that the Mac OS X Disk Utility handles this correctly, so there should be no issue. What OS version will you be using?
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I have a 640 GB Western Digital in my MacBook Pro, works beautifully. But it's a BEVT model, not sure if they come with 512 Byte of 4 kB sectors.
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I have the BEVT 640GB in my MBP (Unibody 08) too. They work just fine.
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This is for my Macbook pro with snow leopard 10.6. The problem is I use bootcamp in XP sometimes. I don't think XP supports the advanced formatting as well as Mac. Not sure if this is an issue with bootcamp though.
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Moderator Join Date: Apr 2000
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Originally Posted by Wayland 
This is for my Macbook pro with snow leopard 10.6. The problem is I use bootcamp in XP sometimes. I don't think XP supports the advanced formatting as well as Mac. Not sure if this is an issue with bootcamp though.
Correct, there is a problem with XP, but it is a problem because of the way the default formatting in the XP installer works. It might be that the Disk Utility formatter is smarter.
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