This suggestion should be reposted in the Ideas forum - that way other users can also vote on it.

It may also be true that since solid state drivers are taking over and there might not be a need for any of this logic at all and by the time you start upgrading to Windows 7 in a year or two you'll have solid state drive that couldnt care less about sector size at all (other than to be compatible with all controllers out there). Which is an interesting issue in itself.

I don't see SSD taking over from magnetic storage for a while yet. Price per Gb for SSD is hugely more expensive than magnetic storage and I'm not convinced that gap will close in as little as a year or two. No doubt the likes of Intel and other major chipset manufacturers are working on designs for hard disk controllers that offer 4K sector sizes. This is really nothing new - SCSI hard disk controllers back in the early 1980's offered various sector size options which could be selected via the SCSI common command set, and sector sizes of 1K were quite typical in minicomputers of that era, despite hard disk capacities typically being in the range 40Mb to 100Mb.

From the article, the drives are backwards compatible for 512 bytes per sector however they are sensitive to alignment.  You can use ghost with the switch '-align=1MB' to force the partition alignment to 1 megabyte (an even multiple of 4kB) when restoring an image.  

The align switch will ensure that the partitions are aligned at 4kb sector boundaries and hence keep the emulated sectors performing well.  Similar performance issues exist for disk stripes in RAID scenarios.

Note that Vista and Windows 7 default to 1 megabyte alignment and ghost recognizes this and uses the same alignment when restoring an image of either operating system.