Good day everyone,
Was formating a microSD card and had strange thought.
Shouldn't we always format solid state storage devices (such as SD card, USB keys, SSD drive) with the smallest Allocation unit size. Isn't there no time delay or very small, unlike mechanical drives, to read a memory location.
So it would just waste less space?
Granted you lose some in overhead because of Index Table.
On my 4GB microSD between a 16k and 1k allocation unit, there was about 30MB difference in initial free space.
In my case definitely 1k allocation was better (data log of 1k files) but 16k was the default size. Isn't that a waste?
So basiclaly just wondering is my resoning wrong? Is there a significant delay on solid state storage? or would the overhead be To much on say a 250GB SSD?
Or am I right in thinking I should format ALL my USB keys and SD cards at 1k allocation to minimize waste?
Thanks to anyone who replies.
And have a wonderful day to anyone who reads.
Was formating a microSD card and had strange thought.
Shouldn't we always format solid state storage devices (such as SD card, USB keys, SSD drive) with the smallest Allocation unit size. Isn't there no time delay or very small, unlike mechanical drives, to read a memory location.
So it would just waste less space?
Granted you lose some in overhead because of Index Table.
On my 4GB microSD between a 16k and 1k allocation unit, there was about 30MB difference in initial free space.
In my case definitely 1k allocation was better (data log of 1k files) but 16k was the default size. Isn't that a waste?
So basiclaly just wondering is my resoning wrong? Is there a significant delay on solid state storage? or would the overhead be To much on say a 250GB SSD?
Or am I right in thinking I should format ALL my USB keys and SD cards at 1k allocation to minimize waste?
Thanks to anyone who replies.
And have a wonderful day to anyone who reads.
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