[dayglored]

> The more modern operating systems work fine with this, but Windows XP will not align the sectors correctly.

There are reports of severe performance degradation in XP, due to misalignment, read/modify/write operations causing missed revolutions of the platter, etc.

I'm running Win7 on my hardware Windows boxes now, but if I were still running XP (other than VMs) I wouldn't use these >2GB drives for anything but archive storage.

[wizzardude]

yeah, I hate having 2GB drives, too :)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Was looking at specs:

Specifications for the WD Caviar Green (Advanced Format) SATA internal hard drives

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