Volume Marked as RAW?

I have an application that uses thousands of many small files (typically
under 200 bytes per file). As an experiment I wanted to try creating an
NTFS volume whose allocation units are the minimum size of 512 bytes and
seeing if that would speed up the use of these small files. I created a
588 MB test volume and formatted it NTFS specifying 512 Bytes as the
allocation unit sizing. After a quick format, the volume is showing up as
"RAW" type and not NTFS.

Can someone explain what RAW type is, and why this is happening?

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Will


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