Aaron-Carey
19 November 2001
I KNOW the benefits of format d: /z:64 on fat 32 partitions for audio
BUT
I am now reformatting a 3 disk softraid system which HAS to be NTFS...is there a benefit to formatting these at 64k? what would be ideal?
Comments
ok some test results using winxp softraid and dskbench.exe ***
ok some test results
using winxp softraid and dskbench.exe
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test 1: default cluster size( whatever that is)
write: 37.05 mb/s
read: 42.61 mb/s
Block size 128kb: 81.94 audio tracks
64kb: 111.47
32kb: 107.93
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Test 2: 32k clusters
write: 37.08 mb/s
read: 42.82 mb/s
128kb: 81.69 tracks
64kb: 106.96
32kb: 108.56
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Test 3: 64k clusters
write: 32.27 mb/s
read: 42.54 mb/s
128kb: 142.49 tracks (!!!!!! wtf??? )
64kb: 100.24
32kb: 102.53
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Ok Im using vegas as my main audio app and dont know how or if I can specify block sizes in this app...so which of these three would be best for me ?