Re: Fat32 vs NTFS ?
From: Ad (graphi47uk_at_y.a.h.o.o.co.uk)
Date: 02/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:25:51 +0000
Joe Earnest wrote:
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> Actually, I believe Ad may have a point on defrag'ing, but not because of
> differences between FAT32 and NTFS, simply because of cluster size. Ad's
> talking about a relatively large HD. I converted several large drives and
> partitions from FAT32 partitions to solo or fewer NTFS partitions a few
> months ago, and I have noticed a similar phenomenon -- a need to defragment
> more often for performance. I write it off to the extremely large cluster
> sizes that FAT32 forces on you, if you use large partitions. At those
> sizes, you can work with the bulk of word processing and accounting files
> and never bust out of the single end cluster. Using the large FAT32 cluster
> sizes, I rarely defragmented and never noticed a performance hit -- the
> drive head just didn't have move that much to load or save the files. I've
> always assumed that multiple moves, even if shorter, are more of a
> performance hit than is a single longer move across the disk. Of course,
> this advantage comes at a cost. I gained about 15% to 20% more effective
> capacity when I changed to the smaller NTFS clusters. I suppose that one
> could simply setup an NTFS drive for a large cluster size and regain this
> "advantage," if you can afford the wasted space. Like I said, I see this
> point as being an issue of cluster sizing, not FAT32 vs. NTFS.
>
I can understand that, but how many will now how to change the cluster
size? I have got too many partitions and I will have to join them back
up I think, but they are still staying in fat 32.
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