Promethius Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 How do you change the cluster size of a Hard drive I need to set it to 16KB on an NTFS drive Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katch Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 How do you change the cluster size of a Hard drive I need to set it to 16KB on an NTFS drive Partition Magic is what I use. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promethius Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 yea but dont you have to pay for partition magic Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katch Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 yea but dont you have to pay for partition magic Technically. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashburn Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 Whay are you needing to change the cluster size? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promethius Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 i want to play around with it to see what gives me the best performance Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashburn Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 My advice (for what it's worth): don't bother. I've found that of the reasons to do this, more are bad than are good. And the chances of messing something up are nontrivial. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katch Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 The only gains in performance would come from having a seperate partion at the start of your hard disks before the operating system set with 64KB cluster size and set as swap space. I've played about with clusters a lot and it really isn't worth it, I couldn't even put a whole percent on the performance gains. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashburn Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 I've read that even if you have the swap file on a drive with larger clusters, NT still reads it in 4k chunks, thus negating the whole deal. I don't know how much truth there is to this, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promethius Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 well i have a RAID 0 and read some where that cluster size should be 1/4 of Stripe size Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promethius Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 Are there any free tools that can do this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashburn Posted August 21, 2005 Posted August 21, 2005 I know they exist, but don't know what they are. If I have to make changes like this without reformatting (which I try not to do), I use partition magic. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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