cluster size for Video-only HDD? at DVinfo.net

Piotr Wozniacki · May 15th, 2008, 02:32 AM

This is not EX1-specific, but this forum is full of really experienced people and one of the most busy ones, so here I go:

I'm configuring a new external storage to hold source mxf clips ONLY (plus some stuff that Vegas will inevitably write to it when editing from it, like the audio peaks files). The temp and render folders and alike will be held elsewhere

Since the clips are usually multi-gigabyte in size, which cluster size would be optimal? I'd think a one considerably greater than the NTFS default. Any opinions on that?

John Woo · May 15th, 2008, 08:50 PM

http://smallvoid.com/article/cluster...partition.html

For video, I would try 16k or 32k and write some files to it to test if there is any performance improvement. You can also use benchmark tool to test the HDD performance.

May 15th, 2008, 02:32 AM	#1
Piotr Wozniacki Inner Circle Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Poland Posts: 4,086	cluster size for Video-only HDD? This is not EX1-specific, but this forum is full of really experienced people and one of the most busy ones, so here I go: I'm configuring a new external storage to hold source mxf clips ONLY (plus some stuff that Vegas will inevitably write to it when editing from it, like the audio peaks files). The temp and render folders and alike will be held elsewhere Since the clips are usually multi-gigabyte in size, which cluster size would be optimal? I'd think a one considerably greater than the NTFS default. Any opinions on that? __________________ Sony PXW-FS7 \| DaVinci Resolve Studio; Magix Vegas Pro; i7-5960X CPU; 64 GB RAM; 2x GTX 1080 8GB GPU; Decklink 4K Extreme 12G; 4x 3TB WD Black in RAID 0; 1TB M.2 NVMe cache drive Last edited by Piotr Wozniacki; May 15th, 2008 at 06:36 AM.

May 15th, 2008, 08:50 PM	#2
John Woo Regular Crew Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Singapore Posts: 160	http://smallvoid.com/article/cluster...partition.html For video, I would try 16k or 32k and write some files to it to test if there is any performance improvement. You can also use benchmark tool to test the HDD performance.