I want to format a harddisk on Vista 64, NTFS, 600 Gb. There is an option to choose the clustersize... what's a normal size...? I mainly play FSX, games and use it for mp3's.

I want to format a harddisk on Vista 64, NTFS, 600 Gb. There is an option to choose the clustersize... what's a normal size...? I mainly play FSX, games and use it for mp3's.

An OS disk must be 4K so if Vista or any other OS is to live on the partition it must be 4K no exceptionsFor a dedicated FSX disk or any drive that will be serving a lot of files I suggest 64K

An OS disk must be 4K so if Vista or any other OS is to live on the partition it must be 4K no exceptionsFor a dedicated FSX disk or any drive that will be serving a lot of files I suggest 64K

Wow, 64K... that's a lot more than I thought! And that means I have to reformat the drive again, because I got impatient and formatted it with 4K... ;) Will 64K mean things will load (a lot) quicker? Or will it only or mainly save space?

A bit more efficient than 4K in file calls because more data lives on each clusterno, it wont save space it will use a bit more however what it will do is reduce fragmentation and maintain a much cleaner file system. A disk that is formatted to 64k will not need to be defragged anywhere near as often as one formatted to 4KIf this is something that requires a complete reinstall of a sim I would just wait till the next time that operation is performed but in the future I would use 64K for any disk serving MSFS exclusively

Thanks for the info and explanation! :)