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What I've found from net some guides quite plainly recommend much bigger than default sized clusters while in few places it reads that NTFS handles big partitions/volumes with big amount of clusters without any problems and that there are also some optimizations especially for 4kB cluster size.

But then again default 4kB cluster size with current HD sizes can easily make 100+ million clusters so I wonder does that start to affect practical performance for example through increasing size of file system data?


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