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Old 28-04-2017, 11:34 PM
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Thanks Wavy, the main drive running OS/software is a SSD and this is a laptop not my main system so there's no raid config. The drive I want to increase the block size on is an external USB 3.0 that I'd use away from home.

I thought that by doing this I could capture directly to the larger external drive rather than to the smaller SSD which would eliminate having to transfer hundreds of subs to the external drive at the end of the session. I understand that read/write speeds are slower with USB but thought that maybe I could get some of it back by using bigger blocks. Also I wouldn't be storing any small files only subs so there shouldn't be too much drive space wasted using a 64-128kb block size.

Is this worth doing or would the gains just be too little to even bother with?

Update: After a little research and looking at my sub sizes I've decided to try out exFAT at 1024kb.
Update: Upped it again today now using 4096kb and seems to performing well so far.

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