re: Cluster size survey, check your computer now!
Sunday, July 11, 2004 at 9:40 pm
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Posted by Steve
(19550 messages posted)
2 hard drives, OS on 45 gig drive slave drive 180 gig,
both drives 32,768 .
On Sunday, July 11, 2004 at 8:20 am, Mac wrote:
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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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