Cluster size for USB & Firewire HDDs???

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I just had a thought while formatting my replacement Maxtor drive...

When connecting a hard drive externally on a USB or FireWire connection, can
a speed increase be had by using a non-standard cluster size that more
closely matches the USB or FireWire packet size???
 
I just had a thought while formatting my replacement Maxtor drive...

When connecting a hard drive externally on a USB or FireWire connection, can
a speed increase be had by using a non-standard cluster size that more
closely matches the USB or FireWire packet size???
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Doubtful there'd be any or at least that it'd be significant
since the drive has a far larger cache than the USB or
firewire chip a buffer, plus the faster cache-to-buffer
speed than buffer to host/peer buffer.
 
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