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Subject: Re: FAT32 vs NTFS? Which is better?

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 16:51:29 12/31/00

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On December 31, 2000 at 19:32:22, Laurence Chen wrote:

>On December 31, 2000 at 19:23:26, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On December 31, 2000 at 18:41:41, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>If you had to use Windows, and was running a computer only for chess, which
>>>would you use?
>>>
>>>I just got a new Athlon machine, and want to use it exclusively for chess over
>>>ICS, as I have other machines I can do my other stuff with.
>>>
>>>The engine is going to be Crafty.
>>>
>>>Any input would be great.
>>
>>Beside using FAT32 I would suggest using the Nimzo 8.ctg with Crafty, it becomes
>>a super program.
>>
>>Pichard.
>NTFS, of course.  You can create large arrays, that is, combine several hard
>drives together to create one large container.  For example, you could combine 4
>hard drives, let's say, 40 GB each, into one large container(partition) of 160
>GB if using RAID 0.
>Regards,
>Laurence

I thought that NTFS might be better, so in the time that you took to reply, I
simply installed Windows 2000 using NTFS5... pretty easy, shortened the install
time by almost 11 minutes, and seems to be a bit quicker than FAT32...

Might just be me...



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