Change default block size on drives in OSX?

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alcimedesalcimedes
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
So I've got some drives that are being used to back up various machines at work. They only contain backup files on them, which are huge files containing all the data.



These drives have approx. 20 or so files on them, but the files are about 40 GB on average. So what I'd like to do is reformat the drives to have a larger default block size, as the current 512byte is really quite small. Anyone know of a utility that will do this in OSX? I don't mind paying for one, but google searches turned up nothing for me.



Oh yeah, and whatever I format them with would have to be able to allow them to be in a striped RAID. Not sure if OSX reformats a drive's default block size when you RAID them though. Anyone know?

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    wmfwmf Posts: 1,164member
    It probably won't make any difference.
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    costiquecostique Posts: 1,084member
    Many, many years ago there was a company called FWB and they had Hard Disk Toolkit. IIRC, the latest versions even worked with ATA drives. It was, of course, pre-OS X.
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