[SOLVED] Formatting USB to NTFS. Best Allocation Unit Size?

[redhot3]

Im about to format a USB flash drive to NTFS. I wonder what I should set Allocation Unit Size to?

From what I have searched, people say keep it default. I have 16GB USB size and I will be using it for movies only. Should I keep it default 4096 or 8192 or what? Some movies can go as far as 5GB, some are way less.

Please advise. Thank you!

 

[mdd1963]

default is fine, IMO...

 

[failboat]

It's really more important for large disks. The size needs to be bigger for many TB disks. The downside to a bigger size is that if you store a 1 bit file it takes up 4096B. For something like a movie the bigger size is fine. if you were trying to store a million tiny text files it would matter a lot.