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Re: [L-OT] Re: Hard drive optimization

2002-08-27 by Murray McDowall

"ed_tarantino" <edtarantino@...> wrote:

>I'm running Win2000, so I'm formatting to NTFS (is that 
>the right acronym? can't remember..) seems you can select size of 
>file clusters when formatting, umm can't remember size options. From 
>your suggestion, I assume smaller clusters are better for audio?

No -- drive defrags and disc read/write operations are faster with bigger
clusters. So use smaller clusters on your system drive and big ones on your
audio drive.

Regards,
Murray

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