Grayson Fahrner
Active member
As Red shooters our files are huge and therefore candidates for increasing allocation unit sizes on hard drives for theoretical "performance" gains.
BUT
Increasing block size on a hard drive means not keeping many other smaller files on those drives so as not to hog precious storage, a downside which might be small but is not theoretical.
1) Does increasing the block size from 4096-->64K-->256K and beyond on SSD/NVME systems actually do anything for storing/copying/editing .r3d files?
2) When copying over files from one hard drive to another, is anyone else bothered by the non-identical file sizes presented on both media due to differences in cluster size? I hate painstakingly copying footage to backup only to see different numbers show up, as I have had instances of non-identical file sizes revealing truncated footage once or twice.
3) Is there a benefit to keeping all allocation cluster units identical across all media? I use MAC for ingest in the field but edit on a PC and I really like to see file sizes nearly identical across the entire ingest/copy/edit media units.
4) Any other tips on formatting HDDs/SSDs/NVMEs for maximum performance? I'm a little confused on stripe size/device block size/partition alignment considerations as well.
BUT
Increasing block size on a hard drive means not keeping many other smaller files on those drives so as not to hog precious storage, a downside which might be small but is not theoretical.
1) Does increasing the block size from 4096-->64K-->256K and beyond on SSD/NVME systems actually do anything for storing/copying/editing .r3d files?
2) When copying over files from one hard drive to another, is anyone else bothered by the non-identical file sizes presented on both media due to differences in cluster size? I hate painstakingly copying footage to backup only to see different numbers show up, as I have had instances of non-identical file sizes revealing truncated footage once or twice.
3) Is there a benefit to keeping all allocation cluster units identical across all media? I use MAC for ingest in the field but edit on a PC and I really like to see file sizes nearly identical across the entire ingest/copy/edit media units.
4) Any other tips on formatting HDDs/SSDs/NVMEs for maximum performance? I'm a little confused on stripe size/device block size/partition alignment considerations as well.