Okay, I've been reading various stuff on RAID setups. Reviews of RAID cards often show benchmarks with various stripe sizes, and generally, larger stripe sizes are better when doing stuff that involves working with large files (i.e. digital video editing, etc.)
So, that got me wondering, if using a non-RAID, single hard drive setup, would formatting the drive with larger cluster sizes bring any sort of performance increase?
For example, if you formatted a 30 GB partition on a hard drive, normally it would have a 16KB cluster size. But what if you used the switch functions on the format command to format the drive with 32KB sized clusters instead - would there be any real world benefit?
Or is the performance difference on a single drive so small you'd never notice it?
Just wondering...
So, that got me wondering, if using a non-RAID, single hard drive setup, would formatting the drive with larger cluster sizes bring any sort of performance increase?
For example, if you formatted a 30 GB partition on a hard drive, normally it would have a 16KB cluster size. But what if you used the switch functions on the format command to format the drive with 32KB sized clusters instead - would there be any real world benefit?
Or is the performance difference on a single drive so small you'd never notice it?
Just wondering...
