Setting up W2k h/d

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I've been using Cubase for some time, but have just heard something or another about cluster size? As I'm just about to reinstall my os and a few new partitions and a new drive, does anyone have any info on using/setting cluster size or anything that will better my h/d recording?
thanks,
Uli
 
Pick a larger cluster size, as this will benefit sequential I/O which is primarily what happens on a daw
 
Thanks

Not to keep on about this... but: the larger the better? Or midway? thanks again,
 
There is an optimum number - it has to do with the relationship between cluster size and the number of bytes per track of your disk.

Say your track size is 50KB, and you set your cluster size to 16KB, you'll read 3 clusters or 48KB per single revolution. However if you set your cluster size to 32KB, you only get 32KB in a single rev, the other 18KB is wasted space...
 
There is a tradeoff between cluster size and wasted space on the disk. each file -even if it is just a single byte- takes at least a cluster of space on your disk. If you work with thousends of small files, then you are going to waste lots of space. But if -like me- you have loads of files of several hunderds of megabytes each, then those few half empty cluster won't make a difference.

Beware that if you stray from the standard cluster size in windows, then the defrag utility coming with windows doesn't work anymore. You will need a specialised one like diskkeeper.
 
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