anonymous
18 November 2004
I'm looking at picking up a couple of SATA drives, setting them up in RAID 0, and using them as my audio drive. I heared or read somewhere a while ago that there was a specific cluster size (?) or other format option that is optimal for reading large files. Is this the case? Anyone know what this is?
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GetTarEast wrote: Thanks! I was actually thinking of formatting
GetTarEast wrote: Thanks! I was actually thinking of formatting the drive as NTFS (I'm running WinXP). Can I do the same in NTFS? Any reason I should stick to FAT32?
You should have at least two hard drives. One drive should be formatted NTFS, and will hold the operating system (WinXP). The other drive will hold your recordings, and should NOT be formatted NTFS. Format that one FAT32 like I described above.
You're right. Recording is more efficient using large cluster
You're right. Recording is more efficient using large cluster sizes, not the default 4K clusters generated by the Windows FAT 32 partitioning system. You can force the issue by applying the /Z:64 switch to the FORMAT command. This switch will tell FORMAT to build each cluster out of 64 sectors thus generating 32K clusters (each sector is 512 bytes).