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What does my 22TB Allocation size need to be in when formatting? (zerobytes.monster)
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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Pessimistic_Gemini on 2025-07-23 19:02:49.

So I was looking around the web, all the while backing up one of my drives into another 4TB drive and I was looking through DiskPart to see what the Default Allocation Size was for my 22TB drive. Apparently it was around 8192K while its Offset was at 1024 KB.

I was looking to format it again to a different Allocation size to see if it would not result in such a bloated file size for one of my copied drives but wasn't sure which one would work for it. As it is currently, the options are 2048K, 4096K, 8192K (Default), 16384K, 32768K.

If anyone with this said drive has any idea which is recommended, I would like to know whenever you have the time. Thanks.

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