Modern standards of data transmission allows for a few minutes to download feature-length film, its quality is just fascinating, though at higher quality of video is growing and the volume of occupied disk space. And now, many users would like some magical way to increase the hard disk. The company Western Digital has invented a new way to increase the amount of free space on your hard disk, which looks fairly reliable, at least more reliable than most of the recipes to increase the capacity of the existing drive on Internet forums.

WD calls it "Advanced Mode" and said that this new method of partitioning, which allows you to get rid of all the headlines Sync / DAM and ECC, which each sector generally includes, but instead use a large physical sector 4k, as shown in the picture . Although this method means that the final ECC will be greater overall increase in space is enough to make this method of partitioning used by the increased capacity at 7.11%, which, of course, very noticeable in the case, for example, the disk capacity of more than 1TB.

Unfortunately, this method of separation has a significant disadvantage. Users can not update the current firmware disk and reformat them in accordance with the new expanded format. In the next few weeks, Western Digital is going to release new discs with a way of separation. Probably the first model with an expanded format will appear in a series of Caviar Green, and soon after this method of separation will be used in other hard drives, Western Digital.