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4k Sectors: Which Drives Don't Lie About Having 512b Sectors and Correctly Report 4k Sectors?
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Mar 15, 20261182 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I recently returned a Western Digital WD20EARS drive with 4k sectors (Western Digital refers to this as "advanced format"), because I found out that it lies and reports 512b sectors to the OS, and there's no way to disable this behavior (there's only a jumper to offset the LBA by one to align 512b …
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What you are looking for is a 4K native (4Kn) drive, to my knowledge there are no drives on the market at the moment that support this, either by default or through a jumper. Stick with the 512B native sector drives for now and avoid the 512 emulati…
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