Thanks to those who clued me in to NTFS. Because I do alot of gaming and CD
burning, I'm gonna stay with FAT32. U just can't beleeve the BS fom
Macrohard enymore.

             Doyle Hirsch
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>From: Tom Billiodeaux <[log in to unmask]>

>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] NTFS
>Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:49:38 -0500
>
>You should consider your reason for wanting NTFS. Security?
>Your floppy disc are probably FAT16, not FAT32, unless you purposely made
>them FAT32. THe normal format for floppy dos is FAT16.
>This is the most efficient use of the space especially for such a small
>storage device where you will be adding small files (<4K size).
>FAT16 uses much smaller sectors (about 512K).
>
>I recently used Disk Juggler software to check the read speed of my NTFS
>and
>FAT32 partitiion. I was surprised when the results showed the FAT32 was
>almost twice as fast as the NTFS partition, contrary to what I had been
>reading about file efficiency. Also, I don't notice a difference in any of
>this in actual usage because my transfers are usually small files, which
>don't take much time sending compared to the device it is being sent to
>(CDRW)to write them.
>
>If security is a factor, use NTFS; but only on your o/s partition. If not,
>I'd recommend staying with FAT32, especially in a multiple dos system
>(W98,Millen) and for your data partition. Your floppies should stay FAT16
>regardless of which file system you use on your hdd.
>
>Tom B
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