Can AF 512e drives be converted to work exactly as 4Kn drives?

[Shinobi]

I understand from this table

that 512e drives emulate the logical sector size of 512 bytes, though internally the drive stores in 4K sector sizes.

What I would like to know is can a 512e drive  be made to work just like a 4Kn drive,

by switching off the 512 sector emulation layer ?,

so that OSes speak in 4K to the drive instead of 512 ?

Edited February 3, 2018 by Shinobi

[JorgeB]

No, also and as long as the partition is 4k aligned and the filesystem uses a 4k block size like in unRAID performance will be virtually the same for typical users.

[Shinobi]

4 hours ago, johnnie.black said:

No, also and as long as the partition is 4k aligned and the filesystem uses a 4k block size like in unRAID performance will be virtually the same for typical users.

OK, Thanks!

I thought, perhaps there could be something like a jumper setting in the hard-drive OR some options in the vendor provided HDD management software, to toggle it.

Now I am thinking ..well may be not as of date, as vendors like TOSHIBA provide two variants of enterprise HDDs ..with 512e or with exclusive 4kn..