Formatting Audio Disk...

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"Neil Rutman" wrote ...
> When formatting audio disk, what allocation size should I use?

Likely the default unless you have some extraordinary situation
(which which you did not mention).

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"RD Jones" <annonn@juno.com> wrote in message
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> Richard Crowley wrote:
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>> "Neil Rutman" wrote ...
>> > When formatting audio disk, what allocation size should I use?
>>
>> Likely the default unless you have some extraordinary situation
>> (which which you did not mention).
>
> Depending on OS and disk size, etc. default
> may be only 4k.
> I believe audio drives like larger clusters.
> I use 16k or 32k on smaller drives and
> 64k on larger drives.

And depending on whether he is storing lots of small
files (SFX, etc.) or big long-form recordings, etc, etc,
dozens of details not mentioned in the original question.