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...t;, at least to some extent. In WD's whitepaper (PDF available by selecting language at http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/?id=216&type=87), it does, however, talk about performing in-drive emulation from 512B to 4096B sectors and that they have a utility (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/) to "realign" for "performance" (still can't be certain what this really means; sacrifice 1/64 capacity by packing (63) 512B sectors on (8) 4096B sectors?). Has this been discussed at all off-list (ie IRC)? With the in-drive emulation, it seems like it either won't af...