Re: How to check cluster size

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From: Rehan (someone_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 02:38:41 +0100

> Thanks Rehan but I have found lots of useful info on the
> Microsoft site, in the XP Resource Kit.

Well done.

> Oh dear, looks like I started WW III.

Dont worry... you will find only one party firing all the shots. Others are
here to help only however much they can. Particularly I am not trying to
score points or execute any other agendas.

> when I format my new one (E:) I shall do it in 64kb
> clusters and hope to see a performance improvement.

I would suggest to do a few tests to measure any performance gain:

Measuring time for each step repeat these tests with identical conditions
except cluster size

(format or fully defragment)
1. Copying one large (say 5Gb) file
    1.1 from another drive (would hint on write performance)
    1.2 to another drive (would hint on the read performance)
    1.3 from and to the same drive
(format or fully defragment again)
2. Copying 1000 files of small sizes (all less than 50Kb)
    Repeat steps 1.1 to 1.3

(format or fully defragment again)
3. Capture 15 mins of dv avi file
4. Play it using Media Player Classic which can show stats about how many
frames skipped etc.
5. etc.

Thats gonna keep you busy fr some time :) But please come back to post your
results. 

-- 
Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows MovieMaker

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