LaCie drives set at HFS+ 64KB for FCP

Five years ago I corresponded with LaCie and they told me to reformat their drives at HFS+ 64kb for use with Final Cut Pro. I noted, as well, that when reformatting, using the utility CD Silverlining Pro that Lacie used to include with their external hard drives, that when you chose HFS+ 64kb the message came: "Faster manipulation of larger files or streaming video".

The new LaCies I'm buying no longer include the Silverlining Pro utility CD with their hard drives. What I've been able to do is keep using my existing version of Silverlining Pro to reformat at 64KB.

When LaCie told me to reformt at HFS+ 64KB they said that this was the feedback they'd received from Final Cut users. Can anyone confirm that this remains the preferred formating for FCP use, that 64KB is preferable for: "Faster manipulation of larger files or streaming video"?

While no longer including a version of Silverlining Pro with their hard drives, LaCie does say to go to the MAC utility if you want to reformat their drives in any special way. Unless I've missed it the MAC utility does not give a 64KB block allocation size option. Have things changed in the last few years such that this larger block allocation is no longer important?

Any thoughts out there?

Thanks.

Canada John
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