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Post by Farulosonoth on Apr 13, 2012 8:07:10 GMT -5
I did a google search today for "Boycott Advanced Format Drives" and was flabergasted when I got ZERO results.
Really, everyone is perfectly fine with Windows 7 / 8 being forced upon us finally?
Advanced format drives are incompatible with Windows XP which from a retro gamer perspective, is a very important OS. Many of the emulators that have been written have been written for XP. They may have issues running on Windows 7 and the programmers who write these things, do so in their spare time, the fact that they exist at all is a miracle. I doubt many, if any, will be getting re-written for Windows 7.
They are changing a standard that has been in place for 3 decades, and not 1 single person... other than me thought to place the words ""Boycott Advanced Format" in that particular order... I don't think so. I sense a conspiracy.
Advanced Format is the new standard, all drive manufactuerers are switching to it.
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Adydar
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Post by Adydar on May 24, 2012 15:53:04 GMT -5
Sounds to me like someone is about to register a new domain....
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Post by Benibex on Aug 16, 2012 10:02:23 GMT -5
I'm not even aware of what an "Advanced Format" drive is? Is future hardware going to make, e.g., FAT32 fundamentally impossible? EDIT: OK, I found an interesting article here at AnandTech that explains the whole thing: www.anandtech.com/show/2888So here's my next question: are WD, Seagate, and other abandoning the 512e support in their newer drives? I would think that there is a sufficient amount of legacy software in the financial and retail industry that is not going away any time soon and would still need 512e. That compared with the alignment tool described in the AnandTech article would seem to make WinXP perfectly viable still. I'm not sure there's reason for panic or conspiracy yet unless there's something I don't know here. :^)
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