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Verify Block Size on NTFS 8/5/2008 3:37:25 PM

Verify your block size, the default in windows is 4096.

The debate always is what is the optimal block size, I prefer a block size of 64K for NTFS Volumes.

You need to fsinfo to verify this, you can see below this d drive is at 4096, the default, Microsoft recommends a block size of 8K or greater, for volumes hosting sql server databases (the os is fine at 4096).  Block Sizes smaller than 8K may lead to data corruption.


fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo f

c:\>fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo d:
NTFS Volume Serial Number :       0x60f2135af213342e
Version :                         3.1
Number Sectors :                  0x000000000237efff
Total Clusters :                  0x000000000046fdff
Free Clusters  :                  0x000000000046bcfa
Total Reserved :                  0x0000000000000000
Bytes Per Sector  :               512
Bytes Per Cluster :               4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment    : 1024
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0
Mft Valid Data Length :           0x0000000000008000
Mft Start Lcn  :                  0x00000000000c0000
Mft2 Start Lcn :                  0x0000000000237eff
Mft Zone Start :                  0x00000000000c0000
Mft Zone End   :                  0x000000000014dfc0

 


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