Author: Simon Waters
Date: 16:47:47 01/09/01
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On January 09, 2001 at 19:05:47, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 09, 2001 at 18:49:06, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> b) what is the fastest file system to read and write huge >> files (several gigabytes: about 2.5 gigabyte) with? Fastest is probably the dumbest - so FAT32 for Windows. >Your disk drive and interface is a lot more important than the file system. >NTFS gives you some additional capabilities like ACL's but I doubt if you need >them. The ACL's are required if you want W2K to protect it's own files against your own incompetence I believe. If you insist on ignoring Eugene (He is quite good on that Microsoft stuff 8-) you could install the OS in a little NTFS partition as Eugene (and Microsoft) recommend, and leave the rest of the disk free for experimenting with different file systems. Consider also that if write performance is key a second disk (or multiple disks) may be an option. Historically striping and stuff was for big computing installations, but modern PCI buses and cheap disks may make this an option. Now for some chess..
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