re: Cluster size survey, check your computer now!
Monday, July 12, 2004 at 1:27 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve
(19550 messages posted)
I have several PC's, the ME box is really used only for
light uses, and storage of media files. Since media files
are large, cluster size is probably not to important. If
a person stored a lot of 1 or 2 K text files, then smaller
clusters I would bet are helpful. Dual booting has the problem
if one OS gets messed up, it seems you have to wind up
reinstalling both. If you have one PC, you really should switch to XP, shoot you
could even make 512K clusters
then. I think with all the security issues aside, which XP
has plenty of, it's added stability would make it right for
you. A 1 gig PIII is plenty. My first XP PC almost 3 years
old is a 1 gig PIII. with XP Home, and I can't remember it
ever crashing. It is hooked up to the Home stereo system and has all my CD's loaded
into it. It plays the music randomly for hours on end.
On Monday, July 12, 2004 at 10:58 am, Mac wrote:
>Free MS Update
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>You are probably using a PIII (or equivalent) processor and more RAM than older
'98s
>so you won't have the problem.
>
>Both '98 and ME do seem to run better on 8192 byte clusters, or if you really need
>the space 4096 byte clusters.
>
>A single large drive is not very efficient and not too stable either, and I have
>gained both by partitioning so as to have a 4·0 Gb C: drive and formatting to the
>size I think is best vis a vis performance, whilst the other three, storage, drives
>are formatted vis a vis storage space.
>
>After all you can dual boot '98 & ME with 2000 & XP and they will format to 4096
>byte clusters anyway.
>
Mac
>
>WINDOWS HELP
>HREF="http://www.crucial.com">RAM
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