Re: FAT32 or NTFS?
From: CS (nomail_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/08/04
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Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 19:27:56 -0500
On Fri, 07 May 2004 22:44:48 GMT, Sammy D <samd@westinghouse.com>
wrote:
>I use XP.
>
>I want to create a data partition on a new hard drive of approx 50
>to 100 GB and I want to store only data in it (jpegs, mpegs, mp3s).
>
>Is it better to have it as FAT32 or NTFS? I want resilience,
>recovery, ease of repair, and that sort of thing.
Since you only wish to store jpegs, mpegs, and mp3s on this drive,
cluster size is not a factor and should not matter. I would format
the entire drive to FAT-32 (although I'm sure there will be lots of
disagreement on this). One caveat here that would suggest otherwise
is if you intend to create very large files (exceeding around 4gb)
THEN it is necessary to use NTFS as FAT-32 will only support a file
size of around 4.2gb.
My reason for suggesting this is the ease of recovery for FAT-32
versus NTFS. You can always boot your machine with a simple Win98 EBD
or Win98 DOS disk and extract all your data from that drive without
ever having to go into the OS. But it's your decision. What the
other replies have stated should certainly be taken into account.
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