InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comTue, 21 May 2013 11:59:58 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1211348-377-1.aspxAlso, Depending on the size of the disk you may want to consider using GPT over MBR.Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:35:36 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1211348-377-1.aspxAs far as I know you need to reformat the disk.Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:29 GMTopc.threehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1211348-377-1.aspxLets say ive run extensive tests with SQLIO and found for my particular workload the ideal blocksize is 64kb.I ran the command [i]fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo T: [/i] and can see the drive currently has a cluster size of 4kb.Should i now reformat the drive with a cluster size of 64kb?Im pretty sure thats what i do, but i just want to be certain.Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:06:15 GMTwinston Smith