SamirD

I have 2x of the WD 'Easystore' external drives. There is a WD tool that allows you to expose the native 4kn sector size and hence format the drive using MBR. Then you can make multiple partitions as I did (in order to avoid using FAT32) or just make one large FAT32 partition. I do not believe the drive will work like this outside of the enclosure, and I don't think what the enclosure is doing can be done by other enclosures. I think the whole thing is a strictly WD thing. In one instance I do have an HGST drive formatted like this that was also able to be used 4kn in the same enclosure, but I also have another HGST drive that would not work 4kn in the same enclosure, so best to just use the easystore as is. I believe I have tested this up to 16TB, but it may be 14TB has its been a few years. I use the drives strictly has backups as there's a triple chance of catastrophic failure--the drive, the enclosure, or the enclosure's 4kn translation--a failure in any one of these will result in data loss. Hope this helps.