Quote Originally Posted by Dave Labrecque View Post
The fragmentation angle is interesting. Hadn't considered that. Philip -- how 'bout that? Does it mean defragging more often when keeping with the default cluster size "under" bigger files?
All modern operating systems deal with pretty much all of this under the covers.

Your overthinking this.

Just format the hard drive with the default settings and go about your business.

If your not building some retrograde computer system with old PATA or generic ATA drives and an old operating system, none of this will make any difference.