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Subject: Re: FILE system speeds

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 16:08:43 01/09/01

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On January 09, 2001 at 18:49:06, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>Hello,
>
>For partitions under NT2000 i can chose out of 2
>different formats: either NTFS or FAT32,
>
>I don't know exactly how the file systems internally work,
>but i wonder about next
>  a) what is the difference between the 2
>  b) what is the fastest file system to read and write huge
>     files (several gigabytes: about 2.5 gigabyte) with?
>
>Thanks,
>Vincent

FAT32 is faster than NTFS, but NTFS is much more robust. I'd recommend NTFS
despite it relative slowness.

Eugene



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