Ferrari 4000 only ships wish XP FAT32???

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Originally posted by: RobsTV
The following sums it up pretty well.

http://cquirke.mvps.org/ntfs.htm

I would use NTFS where:

Users have professional-grade IT admin, including backup
Users need to hide data more than they need to salvage it
Applications require files over 4G in size
Hard drive exceeds the 137G barrier

But while NTFS has no maintenance OS from which...

Data can easily be recovered
File system structure can be manually checked and repaired
Malware can be scanned for and cleaned

...I would avoid the use of NTFS in consumer PCs

With XP Corp Pro (don't know about others), you still have secure access control with fat32 over a network (can allow or prevent access to only certain files and folders depending on password). NTFS's main strength in security is when sharing the "same PC" among users, and even then is useless unless it is properly setup to use that security. NTFS for most home users simply gives a false sense of security.

When a customer brings in their Home PC for repair for things like crashed defective hard drive, and they tell me all their valuable photo's are in the drive, if the drive was Fat32, more times than not all photos and data can be recovered quickly and at a low cost to customer. With NTFS not cheap or easy, and not as successful.

Run a simple maintainance task (like disc cleanup system restore), on a fat32 partition and a NTFS partition, and you will quickly see that fat32 is much much faster. Overall PC speed? My benchmarks are always at or near the top, so how does fat32 hurt?. Most will disagree with using Fat32, and that's fine. I will not win the debate, and could care less. Most of those same people still use one large NTFS partition.

OK, I do appreciate the help so don't take this the wrong way, but "wut"?

the link talks about NTFS being secure as the big plus over FAT32. Now it's been a while, but I recall FAT32 as being a huge unstable bouncing ball of an OS. I used to have to work in photoshop on various FAT32 PCs and it sucked huge. Same issue with running MS Access for any length of time linger than a few hours. Sure Access is fine with nice neat small databases, but if it gets any bigger than say 2000 entries on FAT32 it tended to tank after a series of reporting tasks. If you have a reputable link (say perhaps something on Anandtech etc) on FAT32 being as fast as NTFS that would really help. It's been my experience that on bench mark testing FAT32 machines ran slower on gaming and office benchmarks (althought I haven't run any such bench marks since WinXP came out). On the recovery issue I do not have personal experience so I'm going to leave that alone it will have to be something I'll need to look at. Seeing as my desktops all run RAID it's not been an issue, still this thing is a laptop so this may be a point to look at. The drive is new so I'm hoping that any failure will happen long in the future. Judging from your post I don't think I'll be changing your mind on the subject

 

[ShellGuy]

Andrew what did ur post have to do with the thread???


Will G/

 

[niggles]

I would say nothing, but it was a nice non-sequitor, no?