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Subject: Re: FILE system speeds

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:12:23 01/09/01

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On January 09, 2001 at 19:08:43, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>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.

If you boost the cluster size for NTFS aren't they about the same?



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