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Fat32 -vs- Ntfs Which performs better? Rate Topic:

#1 El Barto

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Posted 20 February 2003 - 05:36 PM

I was wondering...is there a difference in performance when it comes to FAT32 and NTFS?

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Posted 20 February 2003 - 05:39 PM

NTFS has more encryption...

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Posted 20 February 2003 - 05:56 PM

NTFS perfromance doesnt start to degrade on large hardrives like FAT32 does i think?

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Posted 20 February 2003 - 06:19 PM

yep, NTFS performs best on hard disks over 30gb

Also, more info on NTFS can be found at www.ntfs.com

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Posted 20 February 2003 - 06:20 PM

all the info you need to know...

FAT vs NTFS

#6 Devil_666

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Posted 20 February 2003 - 06:46 PM

Basicly NTFS is for NT, 2000 and XP because this is more secure because of the logins and encriptions, and FAT32 and 16, is for Windows 9x and XP

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Posted 20 February 2003 - 06:53 PM

quite simply, FAT is faster but s**tty encryption and NTFS maybe be slower but high encryption and much more reliable.. as i use NTFS myself

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Posted 17 April 2003 - 09:27 AM

The (Very Little) speed difference between the 2 is not anything in the way of impact of system performance, NTFS is way more stable and Fragmation is minimal.