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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (2041)	8/21/1998 7:43:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>Speed No. Increase in free space. Sean, I believe there are significant potential speed increases on larger disks as well, though I have to admit this is an impression rather than anything I can back up with benchmarks. One example, which I'd have to see disproved not to believe, is head movement. There just HAS to be more average head movement for small files in 32k clusters versus small files in 512 byte clusters, on the average, almost no matter how you figure it. This will NOT show up in benchmarks, because they measure other things (as they should). More head movement translates to slower average access unless all you access are large files. Browser caches aren't large files (usually); a case close to home for us. Regards, Spots