Hacking SD Card cluster size

[pLaYeR^^]

Hey guys,
i just bougth a 256 GB SD Card from amazon and idk if i should format it to 32 or 64 cluster. I read that if you put big files on the SD Card, you should use 64 cluster. Thats true? And why people use then 32 cluster? Some games are 15GB+ and thats not really a tiny file ...
Thanks in Advance!

 

[DarkGabbz]

64 cluster

 

[proflayton123]

64 cluster size to make sure it'll work, also try using guiformat, or SDFormatter~

 

[AmandaRose]

Just for an example I had my 32gb card with 32 cluster size and Mario 3d world took 10 mins to load to the world map and each level took about 2 mins to load I changed my sd card to 64 cluster size and Mario 3d world now takes 1 min to load the world map and about 7 seconds to load each level. So that should tell you exactly why your card should be 64 cluster

 

[xman099]

Any comparison for Bayonetta 2?

 

[Lacius]

64 cluster size will cause files to take up more space on your SD card, particularly when you have a lot of very small files. However, the trade-off is worth it, because the higher the cluster size, the faster the loading speed.

 

[pLaYeR^^]

64 cluster size will cause files to take up more space on your SD card, particularly when you have a lot of very small files. However, the trade-off is worth it, because the higher the cluster size, the faster the loading speed.

Well some games are like 10-20 GB. And the size really dont matter, since i bought a 256 GB sd card.

 

[Lacius]

Well some games are like 10-20 GB. And the size really dont matter, since i bought a 256 GB sd card.

Many games are broken up into smaller files when decrypted for Loadiine. Some games might have a few really big files in the game folder, while other games might have a ton of smaller files. Each file will essentially be rounded up to the nearest 64KB when using that cluster size. For example, a 2GB file (not folder) will be roughly 2GB on your SD because it either fits to the nearest 64KB or because an extra ~64KB just doesn't matter in comparison. However, if you have a bunch of files that are maybe 2KB each, each one of those files will actually take up 64KB each. If you have a file that's 65KB, it will take up 128KB (the first 64KB plus another 64KB to accommodate the extra 1KB) on the SD card.

 

[TiMeBoMb4u2]

A rule of thumb... 64k clusters are preferred. However, there are a lot of factors involved when referring to load times.
Card size, cluster size, card speed (stated vs. actual), SD vs. microSD, etc., all play a role.

 

[pLaYeR^^]

Many games are broken up into smaller files when decrypted for Loadiine. Some games might have a few really big files in the game folder, while other games might have a ton of smaller files. Each file will essentially be rounded up to the nearest 64KB when using that cluster size. For example, a 2GB file (not folder) will be roughly 2GB on your SD because it either fits to the nearest 64KB or because an extra ~64KB just doesn't matter in comparison. However, if you have a bunch of files that are maybe 2KB each, each one of those files will actually take up 64KB each. If you have a file that's 65KB, it will take up 128KB (the first 64KB plus another 64KB to accommodate the extra 1KB) on the SD card.

Thanks for the good explanation!

 

[pakrett]

Thank you everybody !