Optimum Cluster Sizes for NTFS Win 2000?   

My Windows 2000 Pro laptop HD is divided into a 12G C: drive, and a 88G D; data drive.
Both are NTFS.

Cluster size for C: is 512 bytes, cluster size for D: is 4K bytes.

Is the cluster size for C: too small? What would be a better size?

date: Fri, 9 May 2008 13:03:22 -0400   author:   Tony

Re: Optimum Cluster Sizes for NTFS Win 2000?   

The default and optimal cluster size is 4K.  If you convert a FAT32 
partition to NTFS and if the partition is not aligned to a 4K boundary 
you will end up with 512 byte clusters.  To avoid the problem you can 
align the partition before doing the conversion.

John

Tony wrote:

> My Windows 2000 Pro laptop HD is divided into a 12G C: drive, and a 88G D; data drive.
> Both are NTFS.
> 
> Cluster size for C: is 512 bytes, cluster size for D: is 4K bytes.
> 
> Is the cluster size for C: too small? What would be a better size?
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

date: Fri, 09 May 2008 16:22:55 -0300   author:   John John (MVP)