I was delighted to find out that my Hitachi 3TB external properly exposes 4K sectors. I can actually use it on older operating systems, and access the entire drive.
I like WD drives. It’s too bad the firmware lies for some models, making them way more awkward to use. Now it comes down to price for me - if the price is low enough to make up for the extra time, I’ll use them. If not, then I won’t. If a Hitachi drive is only ~$10-20 extra, I’d go for that instead.
