Ultimate cluster size for speed?

[PixelEater]

I just got the new 2TB Western Digital RE4-GP. I'll store a whole lot of Flac music (files can often be 40 megabytes per song) and 1080p movies. In this case, would my best choice be 64 kb clusters, or can I do better?

Would you do anything special prior to using one of these? Check it for errors with something? Format it in a special way?

I can't wait to spin it up! I'm running Windows 7, fwiw.

 

[croc]

I just got the new 2TB Western Digital RE4-GP. I'll store a whole lot of Flac music (files can often be 40 megabytes per song) and 1080p movies. In this case, would my best choice be 64 kb clusters, or can I do better?

Would you do anything special prior to using one of these? Check it for errors with something? Format it in a special way?

I can't wait to spin it up! I'm running Windows 7, fwiw.

In your case, the largest cluster size that you can select.

 

[wuzy]

Yep, largest available which for NTFS is 64KByte as mentioned.
I use it myself to store mainly 720/1080p stuff as well.