Re: Fat32 vs NTFS ?
From: DevilsPGD (ihatespam_at_crazyhat.net)
Date: 02/27/05
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:01:33 -0700
In message <1121r6hsm76r46f@corp.supernews.com> AD
<graphi47uk@y.a.h.o.o.co.uk> wrote:
>> - Less risk of loss and corruption of data
>
>I would not go that far, I have lost more data with NTFS than fat32
Then you probably didn't have the right recovery tools or spend enough
time recovering. The techniques can be different, but recovery of most
of the data should be possible unless there is hardware failure.
Thanks to journaling and the way the file system is distributed, chances
of the complete disk being lost because any one
cluster/sector/track/whatever went bad is virtually zero.
>> - Smaller cluster size, causing less data overhead and lower performance
>> impact from fragmentation
>
>Drives get fragmented more.
NTFS avoids fragmentation by attempting to find an appropriately large
block of space in which to write a file, vs the typical FAT
implementation which writes the file either at the first available
space, or sequentially across the disk.
>> - Native compression support
>Never used it
If you ever need it, it's there for you. It can also be a significant
performance boost under some cases.
>> - Better long file name support
>
>That can be a good idea, but it can also be silly.
Since long file names are a reality (And used internally by Windows'
default directory names), why piss around storing them in the
traditional FAT method?
>If I change back to XP, as I am using ME at the moment, I am going to
>keep my drives as fat32. at least if anything goes wrong, I can stick
>the drive in the other computer and get more chance of saving any files.
My sympathies.
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