Yesterday I bought a Sandisk Extreme 2tb external SSD for use with my Win10 HP Spectre x360 ultrabook (has internal 256gb SSD C: drive). Here it is on the B&H website:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...sk_sdssde60_2t00_g25_extreme_600_2tb_ssd.html
It has exFAT file system and when I ran chkdsk on it says that the allocation size is 1,048,576 bytes (1mb). Is chkdsk reporting this accurately? That sure seems very large. I will only have data on it and the file sizes range from 1kb to 80mb. Lots in the 100kb to 16mb range. I care more about making efficient use of the space and not wasting it than I do about trying to get the last bit of performance. I have a Western Digital My Passport 4tb portable external HD (spinning platters) that has NTFS and 4kb allocation units. By the way, I already read this and it indicates that for external drives exFAT is probably the way to go:
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-file-system-ntfs,3166-11.html
I am thinking that I should reformat it to exFAT with an allocation unit size of 4kb or 8kb. What do you think? Should I use the Windows command line format utility to do this? For example, a command like this:
format g: /FS:exFAT /V:Sandisk Extreme SSD /A:4096
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...sk_sdssde60_2t00_g25_extreme_600_2tb_ssd.html
It has exFAT file system and when I ran chkdsk on it says that the allocation size is 1,048,576 bytes (1mb). Is chkdsk reporting this accurately? That sure seems very large. I will only have data on it and the file sizes range from 1kb to 80mb. Lots in the 100kb to 16mb range. I care more about making efficient use of the space and not wasting it than I do about trying to get the last bit of performance. I have a Western Digital My Passport 4tb portable external HD (spinning platters) that has NTFS and 4kb allocation units. By the way, I already read this and it indicates that for external drives exFAT is probably the way to go:
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-file-system-ntfs,3166-11.html
I am thinking that I should reformat it to exFAT with an allocation unit size of 4kb or 8kb. What do you think? Should I use the Windows command line format utility to do this? For example, a command like this:
format g: /FS:exFAT /V:Sandisk Extreme SSD /A:4096
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