Dell A03 manual How does an Advanced Format HDD impact OS Images?

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Dell Latitude E-Family & Mobile Precision Reimage “How-To” Guide

Appendix B

512e / 4KBe HDD Re-image Guidelines

1 What is Advanced Format HDD?

HDD industry is moving towards supporting higher drives capacity, to address the current limitations with the 512- byte sector HDDs, the industry is moving towards the Advanced Format with 4KB sector HDDs.

The transition to 4KB sector HDDs will allow storage devices to more easily adopt larger capacities in both the notebook and desktop space.

While hard drives will transition to 4KB sectors and to maintain backwards compatibility, current Advanced Format 4KB HDDs, also known as 512e HDDs, will emulate 512-byte SATA communications to hosts and will operate at 4KB.

2 How does an Advanced Format HDD impact OS Images?

Even though a 512e drive is designed to be backward compatible, most of current Operating Systems are not aware of the Advanced Format technology. Depending on the Operating System and its service pack, some extra steps may be required to optimize the performance of the Advanced Format (512e) HDDs and to maintain full Operating System and Application functionality.

These extra steps could require using alignment tools to fix any sector misalignment as a result of deploying a non- Advanced Format aware image on an Advanced Format HDD which may otherwise cause performance issues.

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Contents Revision A03 May 5th Contents Overview LatitudeHow-To Supported Operating SystemsUWB Latest Drivers / Applications and Utilities Installation Sequence Installation Sequence OverviewBios Applications ∙ DCP Ambient Light SensorBios ∙ Notes RAID support requires second hard disk driveTPM Security Recommended Drivers / Applications Installation Order Follow these steps to install the Imsm / Irst driver Graphics 1st GenerationIntegrated Wired Network Controller Ethernet AudioControl Point Security Device Driver Control Point System ManagerControl Point Security Manager Security Software StackPage Wireless Local Network Adapters Wlan ∙ Prerequisites InstallerWireless Personal Area Network Adapter UWB / Wpan Mobile Broadband Wireless Wide Area Network Adapter WwanTouchpad Free Fall Sensor Modem Only applies to some systemsTouch Screen Digitizer 19 USBWebcam Control Vault Firmware Windows Update Latitude on / Precision on 1st Generation 2nd GenerationAppendix NET Framework Requirements? Driver / SW StackHow does an Advanced Format HDD impact OS Images? Re-imaging Requirements when using Advanced Format HDDs Microsoft Operating Systems Advanced Format Aware ReadinessImage Installation Guidelines Clean Image Installation on an Advanced Format HDDOther Partition Alignment Requirements Partition Alignment OptionsAppendix C General Re-Imaging FAQs Page DCP SM Control Point Security Manager Features Table B2 Dell Data Protection Access, Ddpa Table B3Control Point Connection Manager Features Table B4 DCUAppendix E Docks Dell E-Docks E-Family Docking Stations
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