If I don't need inter-OS compatibility, is there any reason to use FAT32 over NTFS?

[beer]

Is there any reason to not use NTFS if the only OS that I run and will share with is Win2K?

 

[ndee]

No, cuz you said that there will ONLY be win2k which access the partition.

 

[beer]

Well yeah.
But I wonder if the overhead is greater or if access times are slower on huge partitions.

I'm sick of having like 5 different partitions. I think I'm going to have 3 when I format next:

C: OS, ~ 4 GB
D: Everything else ~ 67 GB
E: CD-burning queue - 1 GB

And that's a 45 GB IBM GXP75 and a 27 GB Maxtor

Right now I have, OS partition, Game partition, App partition, Temp drive, Dev drive, and a big f'n Data drive (hehehe).

Would NTFS handle that 67 gigger better than FAT32?

 

[beer]

^_^

 

[velvetfreak]

I asked for info on FAT32 vs. NTFS here and got an excellent answer from jaywallen.

As for the data partition being ~67GB, you'd need to create a volume set to see it as 1 logical drive. Don't do it. The performance sucks. For my 2c, use the IBM for the System partition, and create 1 data partition with the remaining space, and have 1 (data) partition on the Maxtor.

 

[beer]

Hmmm
So there isn't an easy way to set two hard drives as one logical drive w/o using raid?

Damn...