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Harold wrote wrote:
>>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.

Does anyone know what the corresponding commands are for WIn2000/XP?

> Large block sizes are beneficial for audio only drives.

Yes -- this is simply because the minimum amount of disk space that can be
assigned to a file -- no matter how small -- is one block. This means you
waste a lot of space on every small file on your system drive. Since Audio
files are typically large anyway and performance is what is needed this
disadvantage is unimportant on an audio drive.

Regards,
Murray