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Re: Re: Hard drive optimization

2002-08-29 by Howard Wooten

>   From: TazmnianDv@...

>Macs have block size. I used SilverLining to format a firewire disk the
other 
>day and you can choose how big the minmum blocks are 2k, 4k, 8k, ...,64k.

 Right, that's all your doing with on the PC. When formatting using the
 command: FORMAT D: /Z:64   the D: drive is being formatted in 32k blocks.

 Large block sizes are beneficial for audio only drives.

H

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