By Philip Churchill on December 27th, 2010
Using Advanced Format Hard Drives With WHS
If you would like to know how to use the new advanced format hard drives with Windows Home Server then we know where there is a guide just for you.
MediaSmartServer.net has a guest article written by their forum member “TechVet” aka James who demonstrates, with the proper setup how to get advanced format drives working with Home Server. From deactivating the IntelliPark feature on Western Digital hard drives by using a utility called wdidle3.exe to syncing the drives sector alignment using one of three available tools. It’s a great guide which you can find here.
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hi there,
is this useless on WHS 2011 ?
rgds
olivier
Hi Oliver,
You are correct, since WHS2011 is based on 2008 R2 we dont have to worry about using advanced format hard drives.