WD My Book 28TB Byte/Sector Size

[coldzage]

Hello,

 

 

I was kindly offered a WD My Book 28TB DUO.

 

The 2 drives come in raid 0, 512 sector size, NTFS GPT by default.

 

Don't understand much about storage but as far as I know it would be better to have it with 4096 sector size correct?

 

However, if I try to format it as NTFS it goes from 8192 bytes to to 2048K only. The option for 4096K only shows up under exFAT. Alternatively I've read I can use WD program to format as compatible mode for MBR 4096K.

 

Basically, usage will be just having it plugged to my pc as mass storage. Somewhat often I might plug it to TV.

 

Can someone enlighten me on the best option and how to format the drive as such?

 

Thank you in advance for all the help.

 

Regards,

[Kilrah]

The 512/4K is how data is organised on the disk at the physical level, what you see when you format is how the filesystem is arranged, 2 different layers.

 

Just leave everything at defaults and you'll have best compatibility. 

[Roswell]

1 hour ago, coldzage said:

I was kindly offered a WD My Book 28TB DUO.

That's a hell of a gift! 

 

Not sure what the conditions were... but just to throw it out there, you can get close to $1,000 for it on eBay if you don't need it.

[coldzage]

4 minutes ago, Roswell said:

That's a hell of a gift! 

 

Not sure what the conditions were... but just to throw it out there, you can get close to $1,000 for it on eBay if you don't need it.

True, I'll be thanking her for a while! 

Since you mention the price, it might be useful to someone to know that you can buy it from WD's online shop for about 580€

 

 

9 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

The 512/4K is how data is organised on the disk at the physical level, what you see when you format is how the filesystem is arranged, 2 different layers.

 

Just leave everything at defaults and you'll have best compatibility. 

That basic part I somewhat understand, even though I can't imagine it's implications really.

Then, when and in what situation should 4k be considered or an actual must have?!

 

Thank you again.