James Cree Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Hello all. :-) I have just bought a 64GB Flash Voyager (my 5th Flash Voyager, all great) and have a couple of questions: 1) Unlike all my other Flash Voyagers, my 64GB one doesn't have the capacity embossed on the little LED. Is this indicative of a 'clone' or are they all like this? 2) I have formatted the aforementioned drive to FAT32 with 8KB allocation units. Is this too small for the allocation units on this drive? I have read somewhere that you shouldn't go smaller than the 'block size' of the drive (after I'd done it) and I also read that the block size of this particular one is 16KB. I don't know very much about allocation sizes and things but I'd heard that it's better to keep them small if you have lots of small files - that's me. Thanks for any help. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 24, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 24, 2009 I would just let the format decide the cluster size but 32K Cluster size would normally be optimal for flash drives. And please try this Utility to format the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Cree Posted March 24, 2009 Author Share Posted March 24, 2009 That is the utility I used. I found it through one of your previous posts (before I was registered). Thanks for that. :-) I guess what I'm really asking is: Could there be any detremental effects to me using 8KB allocation units with this drive? I looked at my other Flash Voyagers using chkdsk before I did this and they were all different sizes (the 8GB Voyager was ready formatted with 8KB allocation units) but they are obviously a lot smaller than the drive in question. I would like to keep them small as my 64GB houses tens of thousands of tiny files and the space wastage would be considerable if I stuck with 32KB allocation units. Thanks again for the quick response. :-) James. Am I needlessly worrying about the lack of the capacity embossed on the LED? Is this normal for this model? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 25, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 25, 2009 You can use any cluster size you want but it may not perform as fast as it could. And as far as I remember we have always stamped the size in code on the USB connector like G08G would be an 8 Gig Flash Voyager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Cree Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 Thanks bro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 26, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 26, 2009 NP Please let me know if you have any more questions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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