Change cluster size on an existing NTFS partition?
Can you use Windows 2000's 'convert' tool to alter cluster sizes on drives already formatted with NTFS, or will I need a 3rd party program? Thanks
Can you use Windows 2000's 'convert' tool to alter cluster sizes on drives already formatted with NTFS, or will I need a 3rd party program?
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However, there is one caveat on this, if you already have 4K cluster sized partition(s), then there is no need to convert as this is the most effecient size you could want to use for NTFS. I think you only need to use the less effecient 16, 32, 64K cluster sizes on partitions larger then 4TB, which ATM can only be had in very large RAID arrays
Originally posted by Alec§taar:
Quote:Well, that's a NEW ONE on me: I figured NTFS was limited to 2TB partition sizes!
APK
P.S.=> Hey, jmmijo, check out the latest on this one... you'll love the results I am guessing:
http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread29591-1.html
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No I think you maybe correct on this one, I still say it's pretty much a mute point as to wether it's 2 or 4 TB as this kind of storage is pretty darn massive either way
BTW - I did read that, yeah it's very nice indeed. However they are still working on releasing the XP version...
Quote:Well, that's a NEW ONE on me: I figured NTFS was limited to 2TB partition sizes!
APK
P.S.=> Hey, jmmijo, check out the latest on this one... you'll love the results I am guessing:
http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread29591-1.html
apk
No I think you maybe correct on this one, I still say it's pretty much a mute point as to wether it's 2 or 4 TB as this kind of storage is pretty darn massive either way
BTW - I did read that, yeah it's very nice indeed. However they are still working on releasing the XP version...
@APK, now that we have gone totally OT on this thread how about I move my questions over to the caching thread.