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Hard Drive - legacy 512-byte sectors & 4KB blocks (of eight sectors)

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Western Digital WD15EARS & WD10EACS Drives
I currently have two WD10EACS 1tb Drives. These drives have 32mb cache and use legacy 512-byte sectors. I am looking at replacing the 2nd Drive in my system with 1.5tb WD15EARS. This drive has a 64MB cache and use a new platter format, which is known as 'Advanced Format'. Instead of using legacy 512-byte sectors, these new drives are prepared in 4KB blocks (of eight sectors). Will these drives work OK together.

The new drive will be used for backup disk images & storage. I would hate to make a back up only to discover that it wasn't compatible in case of a restore. I am using windows 7 & TI2011

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Does anyone from Acronis read these questions about 4K drives? I posted similar question 27 weeks ago with not reply.
Support for Acronis Home has really gone down hill the last few years. I have been using TI for over 6 yrs now professionally and personally and support is not what it used to be.