Cluster size survey, check your computer now!
Sunday, July 11, 2004 at 8:20 am
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Posted by Cam
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As a matter of interest to me, please may I ask you a favour? Can you say if your
drives are partitioned at all and whether they are or not, would you be so good as
to go to each drive in turn and type chkdsk to see the cluster size, i.e. the number
of bytes per allocation unit.
You can do this in a DOS window.
C:\WINDOWS>chkdsk
C:\WINDOWS>D: , and press Enter
D:\>chkdsk
And so on.
Mine reads "4096 bytes in each allocation unit" on all four drives. This is the same
as NTFS.
FYI , 4096 bytes is reckoned to be the optimum cluster size.
You can obtain this cluster size on a FAT32 volume using: A:\>format c: /Z:8
My ME computer runs MUCH better since I have partitioned and made this the default
cluster size. The same is true for 98 Operating Systems.
It is recommended to partition drives with fdisk with a maximum of four partitions
per physical drive.
It would also be useful to know the size of the drives and their partitions.
NOTES:
Format x: /Z:n
Where x is the drive letter, and n=1 , 2 , 4 , 8 , 13 , 32 or 64
1 =512bytes , 2=1024 , 4=2048 , 8=4096 , 16=8192 , 32=16384 , 64=32768.
Many thanks,
Mac
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