The 4 sectors are a property of the drive. Many drives use 4k sectors internally but emulate 512 sectors externally for compatibility. You need a drive which exposes the 4k sectors to the host. I got a used server HDD for that from ebay, but it...
Just because we use ISFShax for redNAND and brick protection, doesn't mean we can't use it for more things. Maybe in the future it will also become the way to launch Aroma instead of FailST, we will see...
Aroma is mostly about the PPC side of...
The Sandisk High Endurance go up to 512GB. Or you take your chance with a non endurance one. It would be probably fine too.
You mean redNAND? This in fact can mount the redNAND MLC partition as USB on your sysNAND.
And redNAND also as an option...
Yes, you can use the format redNAND option in minute for that and enable all the partitions in the rednand.ini
[partitions]
slccmpt=true
slc=true
mlc=true
[scfm]
disable=false
allow_sys=false
Keep in mind that you would need to keep SCFM...
although i ended up accidentally changing my nand with no way of going back bc i didn't know you needed a gamecube controller to restore it (i have a wii minus/1.1, which doesn't have gamecube controller support)
and if i find the sd card i have my NAND backed up on, i can not only restore the NAND if i solder the right part in, but i can also put my NAND on dolphin, then i can play dolphin online, like PMEX Remix or MKWii Riibalanced