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I'm up to my a** in alligators today.
I'm adding two new 2TB NAS drives to my WHS [Win 2008 R2] server system.
Both Win 7 and WHS 2011 have an update patch which functions as an emulation approach to dealing with AF drives.
Previously, since all my drives are 1TB or less, when creating Simple Volumes on these disks (AF or not) -- I'd chosen the "default" "allocation size" which (if not mistaken) is "512."
IF -- "allocation size" is "sector size," then this choice affects efficiency as well as performance for different kinds of files. Things like "movies" and DVR-captures may benefit some from one sector-size choice; smaller files from another (and I think in this case -- smaller, like "512.")
My server is waiting for me to choose in the dialog box for "disks and storage" as I initialize the new 2TB NAS drive.
Suggestions? Somebody should have more thorough and detailed information about this.
Also, if I choose "4096," there may be a mix of drives including some with "512." I assume that managing this is taken care of at the hardware level, or that I won't experience any reliability or other difficulties down the road.
Who knows, and who can tell me?!
I'm adding two new 2TB NAS drives to my WHS [Win 2008 R2] server system.
Both Win 7 and WHS 2011 have an update patch which functions as an emulation approach to dealing with AF drives.
Previously, since all my drives are 1TB or less, when creating Simple Volumes on these disks (AF or not) -- I'd chosen the "default" "allocation size" which (if not mistaken) is "512."
IF -- "allocation size" is "sector size," then this choice affects efficiency as well as performance for different kinds of files. Things like "movies" and DVR-captures may benefit some from one sector-size choice; smaller files from another (and I think in this case -- smaller, like "512.")
My server is waiting for me to choose in the dialog box for "disks and storage" as I initialize the new 2TB NAS drive.
Suggestions? Somebody should have more thorough and detailed information about this.
Also, if I choose "4096," there may be a mix of drives including some with "512." I assume that managing this is taken care of at the hardware level, or that I won't experience any reliability or other difficulties down the road.
Who knows, and who can tell me?!
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