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[grovespaz]

QUOTE(xboxgamer733 @ Aug 7 2006, 12:10 PM)

This is why a more feasible approach to this problem would be to create an application (or as I posted above, edit XBPartitioner) to format a drive with 64 KB clusters.

If you manage to do that, there is still the problem of small files (Not that it would matter much if you have 1tb, but..)
If you make a small file wich wuld take up, say, one third of a cluster, the rest remains unused.
So, the longer you use the drive (besides getting fragmentation), lots of clusters will eventually be 'wasted'.

[Zebes]

i have an extra 250gb hd so i'm gonna see if E can at least go to 240ish

[FrostyTheSnowman]

The XBOX will not boot if you change the size of the C, E, X, Y, or Z drives. Don't even try, it wont work.

[Zebes]

Ok

[xboxgamer733]

QUOTE(grovespaz @ Aug 10 2006, 03:21 AM)

If you manage to do that, there is still the problem of small files (Not that it would matter much if you have 1tb, but..)
If you make a small file wich wuld take up, say, one third of a cluster, the rest remains unused.
So, the longer you use the drive (besides getting fragmentation), lots of clusters will eventually be 'wasted'.

Yes, that is the downside of using larger and larger cluster sizes. Surreal 64 and XBMC, which have many small files, would take up noticeably more disk space than normal.

But, there are also positives to having larger clusters; files will not become fragmented as easily, and disk access becomes faster.