Posted by Glen Thomson on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 @ 03:36 PM
Western Digital is touting
new hard disk drive formatting that will save space. It’s something to
consider as you’re looking at backup storage space. The new feature is
called Advanced Format and Western Digital says it will give you 7-11%
greater capacity on disk drives. Other drive manufacturers are expected
to use Advanced Format to get more out of their hard drives as well.
This technique takes advantage of changes in the
industry in drive sector sizes and consolidates overhead information to
free up additional space for data storage. As a result of Advanced
Format, a 1TB drive could potentially gain more than 100GB in capacity.
Regardless of the type of disk drive you choose, you can backup your
data to that drive using StorageCraft ShadowProtect. ShadowProtect is
disk-based technology that allows you to backup your systems and data
on servers and PCs that are running Windows. With advancements in disk
drives, and with the cost of disk space dropping all the time, backing
up everything in your computing environment has never been easier or
more affordable.
Plus, ShadowProtect backup software is designed so you can set it
and forget it. You can schedule your backups as frequently as every 15
minutes, and schedule ShadowProtect to take full backups once a day or
once a week and incremental backups of just the changes every other
time. The new format techniques will make it easier than ever to ensure
that you won’t run out of disk space for your backups any time soon.