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[EricHiggin]

episteme said:

EricHiggin said:

Formatting question for a non OS HDD.

With a new large internal media (only) storage HDD, if you set the NTFS allocation size much higher like 2048kb instead of 4kb, would that make for faster file transfers? Like if you were moving music or movie files from that internal HDD to a USB3 external drive, assuming that external drive isn't a slouch, would the transfer speeds be any higher at 2048kb vs 4kb, and if so, a little faster or a lot?

it doesn't make a difference for large file transfers, but fragmentation over time should be lower. Fragmentation was more of an issue when HDDs were used as system drives. Large file transfers are limited by the capabilities of the HDD.

Appreciate it. Thanks.