Greetings,
I am wondering whether some of you can help me out here with a tech-related question.
I just ordered a FW800 250Gig Lacie drive, and I somehow wonder about a)clustersize and b)partitioning the drive.
a)From the dark clouded deep of my mind, I seem to remember that there is something called "slags?", that would be unused HD space due to insufficient cluster size if I am not mistaken.
Now I wonder what the right clusterzise is to set under NTFS and how I can determine the same. I mean, lest say i want one harddrive where the average filesize is 4,3Gigs for my DVD backups, and another HD wheere the average size is below one Gig.... I wonder how I can determine the best clustersize!
b)Are there any helpful insights into Partitionsizes? I have this 250 Gig and another 160 Gig internal, and I really hear different storiesabout partitioning.
The external will be mainly for samplestreaming, and the internal for recording.
Any insights would be much appreciated.
Thx for reading
Peace
~^..^~
Bear
I am wondering whether some of you can help me out here with a tech-related question.
I just ordered a FW800 250Gig Lacie drive, and I somehow wonder about a)clustersize and b)partitioning the drive.
a)From the dark clouded deep of my mind, I seem to remember that there is something called "slags?", that would be unused HD space due to insufficient cluster size if I am not mistaken.
Now I wonder what the right clusterzise is to set under NTFS and how I can determine the same. I mean, lest say i want one harddrive where the average filesize is 4,3Gigs for my DVD backups, and another HD wheere the average size is below one Gig.... I wonder how I can determine the best clustersize!
b)Are there any helpful insights into Partitionsizes? I have this 250 Gig and another 160 Gig internal, and I really hear different storiesabout partitioning.
The external will be mainly for samplestreaming, and the internal for recording.
Any insights would be much appreciated.
Thx for reading
Peace
~^..^~
Bear