Hard Drives' 2011 Sector Shift May Slow Windows XP Use

Courtesy Extremetech Tue, 03/09/2010 - 13:58

If you're still using Windows XP, you may be in for trouble in 2011, when all hard drives must move from 512-byte to 4KB sectors.

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