Partition & Allocation Unit Size when formatting an Audio Drive

[JonB]

I'm partitioning and formatting my 80gb audio hard drive on the PC I've just built. I figure I'll use 20gb partitions, since I seem to remember reading here that smaller partitions give better performance?

What about the Allocation Unit Size? Should I just accept the default setting that Win XP uses, or is there a specific size I should use?

~Jon

[recordingguy]

I changed back to a full 80G partition from 4 20G partitions...

I kept running out of space on the 20's and moving some songs of a band on to 2 different drives and I like them to be all grouped together.
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[JonB]

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[QuikDraw]

Partition size is a personal choice. If you want to cut your big drive up into little partitions feel free to do so. I like one big drive myself.

Digidesign recommends a 32K cluster size as optimum for audio drives.

Mike

[da BaSsTaRd!]

right on with 32kb clusters. i like my audio partitions to be 20GB or under for the sole reason that it takes less time to format or defrag...

[JonB]

Thanks guys!