HD cluster size for recording?

Milennium · Jan 12, 2003

What is the best partition cluster size for speeding up Harddisk recording, or is there no difference?

RASTABT · Jan 12, 2003

Hi it's down to your PC system and what your recording to your harddrive. Are you getting problems with something your doing?

MurderOne · Jan 12, 2003

i think FAT32 32K clusters will give you optimium performance for hard disc recording regardless of your system.

Fox Mulder · Jan 13, 2003

And I can't complain about my FAT32 4K clusters performance either. If you have a fast system/hard disk it doesn't matters I think.

Denexo · Jan 13, 2003

I think Fat32 is faster for audio regording on hard disk, and ntfs for video recording. That is from my personal experience.

Milennium · Jan 14, 2003

I'm using a Audio harddisk-recording system with 12 or more mono/stereo tracks, this must be stressfull for any harddisk or not? Because of reading and writing simultanious a lot of files.

MurderOne · Jan 15, 2003

12 tracks is nothing! You don't need to worry so much about h/d performance if that's all you are looking for.

about the fat32 4k clusters. While you will certainly use a lot of tracks with this setup, 32k clusters will produce less hard drive stress on multiple tracks. i wouldn't argue it's essential that convert to 32k clusters but it's certainly beneficial long term and your drive will defragment faster (larger cluster sizes defragment quicker). it will also waste less disk space for larger files.

SUNDraK · Jan 23, 2003

NTFS is better for larg files

just keep the partition under 8GB and u will have a fast cluster under NTFS

Milennium · Jan 24, 2003

Can i use (format) a NTFS partition under Win98se?

SUNDraK · Jan 24, 2003

no u cant

only thing that is posible (with software) is to read from a NTFS partition....

sebus · Feb 4, 2003

You can not format, but you certainly CAN use it (software from Winternals called ntfs for win98)

sebus

greggery · Feb 24, 2003

Can someone reccomend a a program for changing FAT32 cluster sizes (possibly freeware)? I know Partition Magic does it, but I have some major gripes with that program. I'm looking for something much smaller anyways. Thanx!