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Re: Disk compression
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Peter Ramins <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 01:46:23 -0400
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>I read in Win98 Bible that they compare the speed of 3 setups:
>FAT16+drivespace compressed, FAT16, FAT32. They found the first one to be
>marginal faster than the FAT16 while FAT32 to be the slowest. Anyone can
>verify that claim? Unfortunately, I just recently convert some of my
>partitions to FAT32.


    FAT32 may be slower than FAT16, but it's a much more efficient use of
available space, without the screw-ups common with drive space.

-Peter

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