It should indeed let us work with MOST hard drives. You’ll still need to steer clear of those that have frequent disconnect issues, but sector size will no longer be a problem.
For those who are antsy, this is the 5TB drive we’ve been testing in house and it seems to be doing quite well:
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STBV5000100/dp/B00JT0EGPW