Hello Ed,

Saturday, February 23, 2002, 2:30:19 AM, you wrote:

EN> What experiences have people had switching from FAT32 to NTFS?
No significant effect.

EN> What if any down side(s) is/are there?
The NTFS' up-side should be extra security and crash-proof, but I
don't need the security, and my Win-98 crahed hundreds of times over
the years and never killed the boot-drive or erased files I wasn't
working on. With Win-95, that was a problem, in my experience (system
deleted clusters of files in c:\windows, eventually PC refuses to load).

FAT is faster, esp. noticeable when copying loads of small files --
less file-system overhead. Since I work in web-design (== lots of
small files :) my work volumes are FAT32 and thus faster.

EN> I have found that Norton SystemWorks 2002 disk defrag (an other
EN> programs I've tried) run slower than molasses when compared to
EN> running it on my 98SE machines with FAT32. Any improvement with
EN> NTFS?

NSW2002 is excruciatingly slow on my PC (7200 rpm hard drives...) both
on NTFS and on FAT volumes. No idea why. The previous version was much
faster, but I also was running 98 then, so it may be XP's fault.

Yours,

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