Hard Drive Block Size question....

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I have a 300 GB SATA HD. My question is if I go with a smaller block size to
minimize wasted space, will that impact performance?
 
Joe said:
I have a 300 GB SATA HD. My question is if I go with a smaller block size
to
minimize wasted space, will that impact performance?
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Depending on your application, loweing the block size may actually improve
your perfmormance for the same reason it reduces wasted space. I think the
recommendation for streaming applications, audio/video is to increase the
block size, but for typical file access, gaming, temporary internet files,
etc; a smaller block size (i.e. 16K) is better.

carl
 
XP Service Pack 2, Fresh install will not boot from a partition that has
Cluster size greater than 4K. SP1 or Gold using +8K up cluster size will
boot and then can have SP2 applied separately.
.. It's a known issue with cluster spanning at boot time.
 
Joe said:
I have a 300 GB SATA HD. My question is if I go with a smaller block
size to minimize wasted space, will that impact performance?
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Yes. Assuming that you are using NTFS, the cluster size is normally 4K, and
that's been chosen because it works best.

Besides worrying about minimizing space wasted to slack in these days of
very cheap hard drive space makes no sense at all. At the most, you'd save a
very dollars worth of disk space. It's not worth any effect on performance.
 
depends on Software operating system

if you want it the fastest way juse the write read of the block space of the operatingsystem if you want the most space possible on youre harddisk juse the hardware factory limits
 
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