Hdd format

[Paulieboy]

Hello,

Formating a new WD 4T purple surveillance hdd. Should I be concerned about which format to use? I formatted it in blocks of 1024 using EXFAT not NTFS, and seems to be working fine. Is this format ok to use? What do you think?

Thank you

Paul

 

[SouthernYankee]

Advanced storage:
NTFS
If you are using a complete disk for large video file storage (BVR) continuous recording, I recommend formatting the disk, with a windows cluster size of 1024K (1 Megabyte). This is a increase from the 4K default. This will reduce the physical number of disk write, decrease the disk fragmentation, speed up access.