Question

A potential customer wants to evaluate our storage system. They run Windows 2008R2 x64 with 4KB NTFS on a virtual test machine they've sent us. They did not seem to know this at hand, so I think it's reasonable to assume that environment was not tweaked. The tests are inserting, indexing, searching, deleting. Tool is not known to me.

Given that the windows NTFS block size is 4KB, and SQL write in 64KB chunks - is it safe to assume that a block size of 64k on the SAN is a good choice?

They run SQL Server 2008, perhaps standard.

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