Re: [L-OT] Digest Number 666
2002-08-27 by Howard Wooten
> From: "ed_tarantino" <edtarantino@...> >Subject: Re: Hard drive optimization > >Howard, >oops.. sorry. 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? >Thanks, >Ed No, see Murry's post. My example has 32K clusters for audio and 8K clusters for the system drive. I don't know what choices you have but I probably wouldn't go larger than 64K for the audio drive. >> I generally use 32K clusters for the audio drives. >> The DOS format command looks like this: >> FORMAT D: /Z:64 >> >> And use 8K clusters for the OS/system drive. >> FORMAT C: /Z:16 Howard http://www.dakotacom.net/~hwooten/ http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/167/cool_breeze.html