computer & internet
By kavita23
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India
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@september_1st (3209)
• Romania
23 Dec 06
Also called an "allocation unit" or "file allocation unit," it is some number of disk sectors that are treated as a unit. A cluster is the smallest unit of storage the operating system's file system can manage. That means if a 1KB file is stored in a system with a 32KB cluster, the 1KB file takes up 32KB of disk space.
More info here: http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=cluster&i=39852,00.asp



