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RAID 128KB+ Clusters?

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warcraft50

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I've been searching for an hour and couldn't find much of anything useful because every site just talks about the Stripe Size. If you have a RAID array and you are working with HUGE databases/Video etc (in the terabytes) with NTFS it supports 64KB MAX Cluster size, if you cranked up your Stripe Size and were using 64KB clusters wouldn't that be a performance hit? Even with Partition Magic You can't set the size of Filesystem Clusters for NTFS higher than 64KB ..what about cluster sizes larger than 64KB? 128..etc? There has to be a way to do this. Where is this software? Or Is it a limitation of the Filesystem?


Thanks
 
Anyone have any idea? I can't find anything at all and I've searched all over pretty much. If you had Terabytes and Terabytes of information, and NTFS maxes out at 64KB for cluster size (cluster size NOT stripe size) with a stripe size of say 512KB of greater wouldn't the smaller cluster size limit with NTFS be a problem for performance? I've only read a couple complaints about this and nobody had an answer. Although Unix/Linux is also a popular platform for setting up RAID.

Thanks for any help
 
Well, you could try it... Linux has a compile-time limit (meaning you could change it if you really wanted to) of 4MB chunks, but that's overkill for almost everything. NTFS won't have a huge problem with 64k clusters, but I'd recommend something like XFS for something that big.
 
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