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    WD Advanced Format Drive (WD6400BPVT)

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Bearclaw, Dec 7, 2010.

  1. Bearclaw

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    Hey guys you may recall my previous thread about WD5000BEKTvs6400BPVTvs7200.4.

    Now as far as I know the 6400BPVT has a physical sector size of 4092, hence the advanced format. However when I go to HDTune Pro, it shows that the sector size is 512. I think this is because when I was initializing the drive, the sector size was set at default (I thought it would go to 4092 by default, since it is the "default").

    In Intel Rapid Storage manager, it actually shows physical sector size on the disk as 3k, not 4k like I thought it was supposed to be.

    Performance so far hasn't been abnormal, but I'm wondering if there will be future side effects?
     
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    The sector size should be 4096 (I think).

    HDTune is rapidly becoming old software... I've stopped using if for over a year now.

    Did you do a clean Win7x64 install? Or, did you clone the drive?

    Also, does it have a jumper or anything like that to force one mode or another?

    I would try a program from the manufacturer to verify the correct sector size (and if it's not 4K - 4096 bytes, then I would re-install everything again).

    You may not be losing too much performance compared to any older drives you're comparing it too, but if it really is off by that much, I would say that the performance hit would be substantial (depending how much performance you want/need out of your system, of course).
     
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    It's not a system drive. Just has Steam games on it, that's all.

    I tested it on the first day of putting it into my system and it got about the same as on the reviews.
     
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    Oh, I guess Win7 formatted it then?

    If that is the case, then it's just a matter of mis-reporting from those older programs (yeah, if it's older than a week - it's 'older' :) ).
     
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    Oh, yeah I logged into Win7 and initialized it.

    Thanks for your answers.
     
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    Cheers!

    btw, does a manufacturing program exist to check the alignment?
     
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    Well it has a tool to DO alignment. I downloaded it and it doesn't seem to have an option to check alignment.

    I don't want to press next...I'm not going to bother with it, never gonna fix anything that's not broken hehe.
     
    Bearclaw, Dec 7, 2010
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