ABA12.5 Storage Node data volume recommended cluster size (Windows)
The default cluster size is still 4K on NTFS volumes in Windows. My storage nodes in testing are running pretty good on 8 x 600GB 10k SAS drives in RAID5. But as always, I want to do it right the first time.
Does Acronis have a recommendation for NTFS cluster size for a storage node? E.g. for MS SQL server, it writes pages in 64k size so MS recommends 64k cluster size for DB and log volumes so it matches up. What is the typical write block size for Acronis storage node and therefore the recommended cluster size?
thanks
Pete

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In reply to Hi Pete,… by truwrikodrorow…

Vasily, thanks for the honest explanation and the link the tech whitepaper. Good info.
I look forward to anything else Acronis can provide for guidance with regards to the cluster size for the deduplication DB location.
Thanks again.
Pete
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Hi Pete,
I've got a reply from our developers: the cluster size beyond default 4k for NTFS volumes won't give any significant improvement to Acronis Storage Node performance when saving deduplicated data to these volumes. In other words there are no specific recommendations here, besides keeping the cluster size at values divisible by 4k (4k, 8k, 16k, etc.).
Thank you.
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In reply to Hi Pete,… by truwrikodrorow…

Great. Thanks for the info and follow up Vasily!
Much appreciated.
Pete
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