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block size will mostly effect fragmentation and possibly write speeds. I doubt theres much to be gained for you and more to lose if your drive developes errors and you need to salvage data you may have problems reading weird block sizes. I agree it costs nothing for you to have a play. If you're storing lots of small sized files it may be a benefit. it may be better for you to look into a small NAS unit that can use a raid format to get performance and/or data safety. Ultimately though AP take a lot of data and we need it uncompressed to keep signal as accurate as possible and by its nature we're stuck with tons of large filesizes. So the larger block sizes can make sense though you may not be making best use of the drive capacity if you have smaller files on the drive as well as huge videos. it all depends on how many blocks each file takes up and the remainders still take up blocks even if they dont use the space.
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