I understand the typical MBR is 512B and the addressable space is 2TB (2^32 x 512B), this was related to the physical sector size of the storage device (HD) which made perfect sense, but what about IDEMA's new "Advance Format" new standard 4096B physical sector size on new storage devices... will the MBR now be 4096B with an addressable space of 16TB (2^32 x 4096B), or does it stay the same 512B?
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No, size of MBR stays 512 Bytes.
Advanced Format exposes disks with 4096B physical sector as eight 512B logical sectors which extends the limit of MBR to 17.6 TB
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