Talk:Advanced Format

Developed by Western Digital ?

Is this really *developed* by WD ?
The websites linked to express it differently: "As a result, the industry has decided to transition to a 4KB sector size dubbed Advanced Format."

Is it more accurate to say that the hard drive industry has collectively agreed on this changeover... and WD, as the first to incorporate it into products, is using the phrase "Advanced Format" for their implementation of this industry-agreed changeover ?
Or is this a format that WD did actually *develop* then convinced the rest of the industry to adopt ?
86.25.122.135 (talk) 14:35, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't look like it: http://www.idema.org/_smartsite/external/bigsector/ 129.101.174.6 (talk) 22:16, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OS compatibility

All access is done via emulated 512b sectors, so this section is irrelevant. All systems ever concieved have same level of compatibility with those transitional AFDrives. Perhaps what author meant was partitioning tool compatibility - which is merely "improved" (partitions properly aligned by default) rather than groundbreaking. Even unaligneg partitions still work, just slow as hell. All xp or 2k partitions can be shifted into most eficient position (ie via the WDAlign tool)Agent L (talk) 21:23, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not 100% scientific/encyclopedic -> advertisement ?!

Although happy about finding information about the topic, I have the feeling that the authors are utilizing wikipedia for advertising their own technology?! It is not a bad thing, if WD-employees write articles about a technology that WD invented, but an encyclopedic article needs a more scientific approach. E.G.: What are the downsides of Advanced Format? What linux kernels are the EXACTLY who support this technology? Which complications can someone encounter using such disks, etc.. Also, it is not very nice that someone just uses advertising footage in here, i.e. the images are just copy/pasted from some self-advertisement. They should be redone for the special purpose of an encyclopedia, being more scientific and less advertisement. --77.49.54.61 (talk) 07:33, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]