Author: Aloisio Ponti Lopes
Date: 16:24:54 11/29/01
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On November 29, 2001 at 12:38:05, Roy Eassa wrote: > >For example, would converting to NTFS 'break' any chess engines that FAT32 does >not break? Would it make tablebase access slower? Faster?? It would be definitely SLOWER than FAT32. It doesn't matter what kind of program you're using - Word, Excel, Photoshop, games, Chess, take your choice, NTFS _IS_ slower. Using an IBM 75GXP 15 Gb hard disk, Pentium III 700 with ABIT-BX133 motherboard, 192 MB RAM, Video ELSA Erazor III 32 MB, Windows 2000 Professional, some benchmarks: 1) Winbench 99 v1.1 - Disk WinMark 99 (more is better) -Business aplications: FAT32= 10500 NTFS=7240 -High-End aplications: FAT32=24225 NTFS=18600 Those "High-End aplications" are: (more is better) AVS/Express: FAT32=27425 NTFS=21100 FrontPage 98: FAT32=153250 NTFS=92125 Microstation SE: FAT32=41925 NTFS=29200 Photoshop4: FAT32=9928 NTFS=9005 Premiere 4.2: FAT32=19450 NTFS=13475 SoundForge 4.0: FAT32=29675 NTFS=23450 Visual C++ 5.0: FAT32=27550 NTFS=17825 All these tests were repeated 4 times. CONCLUSION: Using business programs (Word, Excel, etc.) FAT32 performance is 45% superior. Using high-end programs, FAT32 is 30% superior. I agree that NTFS is better for security purposes, but... not for Chess, because it's definitely SLOWER. A. Ponti
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