Hi guys! I am new to forums... I bought a HP v210w 8GB USB driver and i want to format it. I want to use NTFS filesystem but i dont know which allocation size i should choose. What's the difference? Which one is better?
This is an issue with trying to use the Windows Backup utility with an external hard drive (Seagate GoFlex Desk) with more than 2TB of storage (in this case 3TB). I have looked into this and found that this is a common problem related to the backup utility being unable to deal with drives that have...
I have 6GB RAM but the task manager only shows around 2GB being used even when doing heavy duty tasks such as video file conversion. Is there a tweak to ensure the RAM is fully utilized?
Dell Inspiron 580s
Intel Quad Core i5 2.66GHz, 8MB
6144MB DDR3 Dual Channel
1GB ATI Radeon HD 5450
1TB...
For my new 2TB raid 0 array? Its 4x500GB SATA drives, and I'll have a combination of small files ( like ebooks, mp3's ) and gigantic files ( CD/DVD images ) . Windows recommends an allocation unit size of 4096 bytes..should I just go with that?
I'm concerned about performance.
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