Looking answers for this for quite some time now: Are any of the current WD drives Native 4K? Can an AF drive with 512e work as native 4K under an OS that supports native 4K? (maybe designed with a possibility to disable 512e?) Does 512e emulation have any performance penalty compated to na…

Advanced Format and Native 4K

orion24 November 13, 2013, 8:56pm 3

I hope so. But I’ve heard others saying that the answer for “2” is no and that the current line of 512e drives is doing the emulation no matter what.