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Discussions about sector size on WindowsForum.com cover the difference between physical and logical sector sizes, especially for Advanced Format disks with 4 KB physical sectors. Users ask about recommended cluster and sector sizes for large NTFS volumes (e.g., 4TB or 6TB) to optimize random access speed. Compatibility issues arise when mixing disks with different sector sizes in RAID configurations, leading to errors. Microsoft hotfixes and updates for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 improve support for Advanced Format disks and add new information classes like FileFsSectorSizeInformation to report physical and logical sector sizes. These topics are relevant for storage performance, RAID setup, and system compatibility.
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    Recommended cluster vs. sector size for 6TB hard disk? Diff? Optimize random access speed

    Whats the recommended cluster and sector size for 4TB or 6TB hard disk (formatted with NTFS)? It should be optimized for random access speed. Whats the difference between cluster and sector size at all? And which one has more impact on the random access speed? Toby
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    • cluster size disk formatting file system hard drive ntfs optimization performance random access sector size storage
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    • Forum: Windows Hardware