Avantages of NTFS over Fat

[DBcook]

When I was installing 2000 pro it gave me the choice of NTFS or Fat. I chose to go with the FAT just to be safe because I am running a dual boot with 98se and didn?t want any problems. Is there any advantage to NTFS over Fat 32, and would affect my other OS.

DB

 

[Psychoholic]

See that little area above your post that says search....??????

 

[igiveup]

In short, yes it would affect your dual boot. Windows 98 doesn't read NTFS partitions, so if both OS' are on the partition that would be NTFS then you would lose 98 altogether. If not, you would just lose the ability to read data from windows 98 that was loaded on the NTFS partition. That said, there are a lot of advantages to NTFS partitions for Windows NT or 2000. Security, Encryption, etc.

Phsycoholic: I am suprised you didn't just unload on him. You missed your chance to win a new convert!

 

[Psychoholic]

<< Phsycoholic: I am suprised you didn't just unload on him. You missed your chance to win a new convert! >>


I thought about it....does that count????

 

[rbV5]

For me, I use a NTFS partition for a capture drive for video, no filesize limit(actually I think its 1 TB) like fat32(4gb max) or fat16(2GB max).

If you do video work, its a big plus!

 

[dcane2000]

I have heard that NTFS will slow down your comp some because of the extra security features and such. If you have a dual boot system you shoudl stick with FAT even if you have W2K and NT because they use different versions of NTFS. But then again, why would you dual boot that way anyway?

 

[Psychoholic]

Here we go....

dcane2000, the extra security features do add overhead but due to the more efficient handling of files by NTFS it doesn't run slower than FAT. Benchmarks have the two running neck and neck. As a matter of fact when accessing large directories and partitions NTFS is faster, noticably and benchmark-wise.

The base version of NT 4.0 and W2K do run different versions of NTFS. However SP5(It may have been SP6, I can't remember off the top of my head) upgrades NT 4.0 to where it can use NTFS5 which is what W2K uses. There are some features that are not accessable in NT 4.0 such as Disk Quotas, but NT 4.0 is with compatible with NTFS5 in this manner.

 

[rc5]

Both work perfectly for me. Personnaly, I prefer NTFS a bit more.

 

[Kadesh]

You forgot to mention NTFS has a journal. A journal is a small file that NTFS writes modified files so the original file is not touched until it is closed. Basically, you don't have to worry about power loss corrupting your drive. Kiss scandisk good bye.

I don't know if you can turn off the journal like in Linux for a speed boost (reiser, ext3). If you do try that though, try not to crash cuz then you're really screwed.

 

[Zach]

<< You forgot to mention NTFS has a journal. A journal is a small file that NTFS writes modified files so the original file is not touched until it is closed. Basically, you don't have to worry about power loss corrupting your drive. Kiss scandisk good bye.

I don't know if you can turn off the journal like in Linux for a speed boost (reiser, ext3). If you do try that though, try not to crash cuz then you're really screwed. >>



That's why scandisk don't run after crash.. I never put it together..

 

[igiveup]

Actually, last I heard the max filesystem that NTFS is capable of handling is something like 16 exabytes (the next step above a terabyte). Its all theoretical because unless I am mistaken nobody has done anything quite this large before.

 

[igiveup]

Psychoholic: Actually, the service pack that you are talking about is SP4. It changes the version of NTFS.SYS to make it compatible to read and write to NTFS 5.0 partitions. Check out this article on a brief rundown of NTFS 5 benefits/features. Good basic overview, Psychoholic you can skip cause its so basic. Article is pre-win2k, I think.

 

[Dantendo]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=34&amp;threadid=441073 :|

 

[lilnnjaboy]

Search for this same discussion...I gave a detailed explanation about NTFS in a different thread.