- Apr 4, 2011
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I found that exFAT has up to 32MB of Allocation unit size. Obviously meant for large video media drives. I am curious if there's an easy effective way to calculate the "waste" of each allocation size. I've looked on google and just find a bunch of "what is allocation unit size" forums. I know what it is and what it does. I want to calculate the waste factor of these high values.
Edit: I should also mention I'll probably attempt a personal benchmark via several real world tests with each of these allocation sizes soon. I'll be testing on external drives, too see if it's actually worth using the high values.
I'm also curious and won't be able too test on my own this part if these sizes would affect NAS video media servers or other servers running Plex.
Seems quite the leap from a typical 4096 byte standard size to 32mb. I'd like to see the affects of it.
Edit: I should also mention I'll probably attempt a personal benchmark via several real world tests with each of these allocation sizes soon. I'll be testing on external drives, too see if it's actually worth using the high values.
I'm also curious and won't be able too test on my own this part if these sizes would affect NAS video media servers or other servers running Plex.
Seems quite the leap from a typical 4096 byte standard size to 32mb. I'd like to see the affects of it.
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