Whats better NTFS or FAT systems?
 

What do you think is better. IM going to be formating this pc once I get my work caugfht upp and want to know what is better? Should I leave it fat or change it to NTFS

TOM

fat32 = Window 98,95

NTFS = Window 2000NT,XP

I like a good fat :Graucho

NTFS all day long...waaay better security...less fragmentation...

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:1orglaugh

ntfs is better

if you transfer video u have a 4 gig file limit on Fat

no FAT please!

Okie okie then thats what I will do to this beast. I have it on my laptop but my laptop is way slower its only a pIII1.60gig with 720megs of ram and this beast is a PIIII 2.4gigs 1gig of ram *shrugs*

TOM

I'll try to explain why NTFS is better.

FAT32 is basically one big extension after another. It evolved from the MS DOS file system.. which was kind of a "baby's first file system". It was limited. It didn't have very good fault protection .. it didn't handle fragmentation well at all. And it's block sizes were 4k I believe. Then FAT16 was born .. followed by FAT32 .. all extensions of eachother.

NTFS was written from the ground up. It is a journaled filesystem .. which means that every single operation that occurs is written in a journal. If the computer crashes and you lose data .. it can recreate blocks from the journal.

It also has other features such as file perrmisions .. and access control lists ... but you really only care about that if you're on a multi-user system.

NTFS is stable.. FAT is not. I really wouldn't trust my data on a FAT system at all.

ntfs is better then you arent stuck with the crappy short file names.

NTFS all the way :2 cents:

NTFS :thumbsup

Yeah but NTFS is actually slower. But You do get File security
, Encryption, Disk compression and support for large hard disks.
You also get a native support of long file names.

Its a tough decision really. I actually prefer speed to all those

ntfs, of course!