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I am formatting a 500 gb 7200 rpm hard drive. My OS is Vista Ultimate. I am going to be using this drive for GHOST image storage. Is there any benefit to changeing the allocation unit size to a larger or smaller size from default?
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I am formatting a 500 gb 7200 rpm hard drive. My OS is Vista Ultimate. I am going to be using this drive for GHOST image storage. Is there any benefit to changeing the allocation unit size to a larger or smaller size from default?

allocation unit size

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