Talk:Data cluster

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Image Notes

The image shown as an example is somewhat misleading, since the number of sectors in a cluster must be always a power of 2. In the image the cluster encompasses 3 sectors. Javier Ruiz, Tenerife

Disk sectors and clusters, contigious or not contigious

Can a file system such as NTFS discontigiously allocated disk sectors to a cluster, that is the sectors would not necessarily be following each others to form a cluster ?--Duffy009 17:20, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The answer is yes. Interleaving can be implemented as a low-level feature: the O.S. won't be aware of it. Since the introduction of LBA the mapping between physical and logical sectors is hidden by the HD controller. (A.K., 2016 - 10 years latter!) 187.95.114.48 (talk) 12:12, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What about "blocks"?

This article currently clarifies that "clusters" and "allocation units" are the same thing. But it doesn't mention "blocks" at all. If they are also the same thing they should be included in the first sentence. If they are not the same thing, that should be mentioned and links to relevant articles should be in a See also section. — Hippietrail (talk) 02:51, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]