Why does my WD Elements have 4k physical and logical?

[T-Bo]

I got this WD Elements external drive with 3 tb. Bought in 2016. Non of my intetnal or other elements drives have 4096 bytes/sector both physical and logical. But this drive has. How is this possible?

And most importantly how can I format my other wd drives to be 4k logical/physical as well?

 

[T-Bo]

Another WD related question. When will the WD60EFZX drives look exactly like this. The ones sold in webshops now look different.

 

[Sagath]

What's the point of hard drives reporting their physical sector size?

I have an SSD that can be configured to report its physical sector size to an OS in two different ways: Option 1: Logical = 512 Bytes, Physical = 512 Bytes Option 2: Logical = 512 Bytes, Physical =

superuser.com

Drives were changed at some point to an industry standard, as size/density increased. You can emulate backwards but it causes a performance hit for obvious reasons.

To your second question; it's either an OEM thing or they changed the branding labels. The drives remain the same mechanically & electrically.