Re: Switching fat32 to NTFS and Back Again

Today Ken Blake, MVP commented courteously on the subject at
hand

R. McCarty wrote:

Speed variances (with matching Cluster sizes) will only be
2-3%, if that. You have to be careful doing benchmarks
between NTFS & FAT32. Unless you need prior OS support,
NTFS is the best choice.


You don't have to convince me. I'm with you on this.

See my reply in this thread. You don't have to convince me, but
seeing is believing. Again, I thought the NTFS transfer rate was
fine, I just couldn't get the contents of a folder most of the
time in under a couple of minutes!

If, after reading my other post, anybody can explain what
might've gone wrong for me, I'd appreciate it. For now, I'll
just say that my current PC is running an AMD 3700 with 4 gig of
memory, Win XP Pro SP2 with all updates installed. Other than
some simeple customization, no changes were made to Windows.
And, since it was a new PC, the guy who built it for me did a
clean native install of Windows.

--
ATM, aka Jerry
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