NTFS = Jesus on a hard drive

[Prodigy^]

just installed windows xp and converted to NTFS.......WOW! i copied 11 gigs of movies in just 15 minutes between two drives! everything is so much faster, and it doesn't stall after every couple of megs. also doesn't hang after using file sharing programs or having copied mass amounts of files.

get win xp + ntfs now if you haven't

 

[Budman]

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[bacillus]

Originally posted by: Budman
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[Utterman]

Jesus is in everything

 

[BD231]

My response to this statement: NO SH*T

 

[boi]

Originally posted by: BD231
My response to this statement: NO SH*T

:Q

 

[Lonyo]

Now try the same on a P133 with 2 x ATA-33, 5400 rpm drives and 16MB RAM

 

[NokiaDude]

Is NTFS really that much faster than FAT32??

 

[Derango]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Is NTFS really that much faster than FAT32??

Depends how big the files are. It like big files, so the speed improvements aren't as dramatic with smaller files. Speed, Security and Reliablilty. The only reason people should be running fat32 any more is if they're dual booting and even then I'd recommend a partition specificly formated in fat32 seperate from your OS partitions for file transfer.

 

[zephyrprime]

Jesus is in everything

...but not in SUVs! j/k

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: Prodigy^
just installed windows xp and converted to NTFS.......WOW! i copied 11 gigs of movies in just 15 minutes between two drives! everything is so much faster, and it doesn't stall after every couple of megs. also doesn't hang after using file sharing programs or having copied mass amounts of files.
get win xp + ntfs now if you haven't

Were you moving from 9x/ME? Those stutter & stall on large transfers but I've never had Win2K do that even on FAT32 drives.

 

[kreno]

Not touching the jesus comment, but NTFS does seem to keep things in the faster area of stuffs

 

[CubicZirconia]

I really wish I had win2k. So expensive....

 

[CraigRT]

get win xp + ntfs now if you haven't

get win2k and nfts!

 

[kreno]

Win2K is the best OS that MS ever put out I think... XP is good, but it's basically a more resource intensive version of 2K with some extra cosmetic features and a neato skinning thinger...

 

[Prodigy^]

well the main reason i stayed away from win2k was because i heard a lot of stories about incompatability. win xp can still play DoomGL and Quake with no tweaks needed, how cool is that?

and yes, I moved from win98se.

 

[OulOat]

Originally posted by: Derango

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Is NTFS really that much faster than FAT32??

Depends how big the files are. It like big files, so the speed improvements aren't as dramatic with smaller files. Speed, Security and Reliablilty. The only reason people should be running fat32 any more is if they're dual booting and even then I'd recommend a partition specificly formated in fat32 seperate from your OS partitions for file transfer.

How about the peeps who would like to move files around for fdisking in MS-DOS?

 

[kreno]

Originally posted by: Prodigy^
well the main reason i stayed away from win2k was because i heard a lot of stories about incompatability. win xp can still play DoomGL and Quake with no tweaks needed, how cool is that?

and yes, I moved from win98se.

I'm confused... I ran DoomGL & Quake from pretty much the beginning with no probs... was I a freak??

 

[chizow]

I moved from 98SE to Win2k Pro, both using FAT32, b/c of imcompatibility issues with 98SE drivers and newer games/apps/hardware. It just seemed like companies weren't supporting 98SE much particularly in gaming areas (games, new vid cards, sound drivers etc.). I had lotsa problems finding SE drivers that worked, so I went to 2000pro and kept 98SE for dual-boot purposes, which worked out much better. Was a pain at first getting all new NT based drivers, but I gave up on dual-booting so I only had to update my Win2k drivers. Just went to XP and NTFS and I have noticed speed improvements as well. XP restarts in about 1/4 the time as Win2kpro using FAT32 and all my components and drivers seem to get along much better as well.

Chiz

 

[BFG10K]

Yeah, NTFS rocks.

get win xp + ntfs now if you haven't

Even FAT32 is faster on Windows XP than it is on Windows 9x/ME. And once you format to NTFS it'll be even faster.

 

[glugglug]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Is NTFS really that much faster than FAT32??

NO, in fact its generally quite a bit slower. But on very large files the difference is negligible and you get security/compression options as well as other features with it.

 

[Rand]

Originally posted by: kreno
Win2K is the best OS that MS ever put out I think... XP is good, but it's basically a more resource intensive version of 2K with some extra cosmetic features and a neato skinning thinger...

Agreed... though for home usage I rather prefer the attractive GUI and few extra conveniences of WinXP.
On a workstation or Server I'd take Win2k though most definitely.
Novell still rules for X86 Servers though... just IMHO.

 

[Nothinman]

NO, in fact its generally quite a bit slower

Most things in NTFS are a lot faster than FAT, especially large directory lookups (thousands of files in a single directory, see it take seconds on NTFS and minutes on FAT) and small file reads because very small files are stored completely in the MFT so less disk seeks are needed.

The only thing thats going to be slower is opens because access checks are done, but the checks are only done once per open so the affect is minimal.

 

[Bovinicus]

Yeah, NTFS just runs smoother than FAT32. This is especially true on large partitions with large files. Windows 2000 is the best MS OS there is. Forget XP, it's too experimental; hehe.

 

[NetWareHead]

Originally posted by: Rand

Originally posted by: kreno
Novell still rules for X86 Servers though... just IMHO.

NWFS and NSS volumes own NTFS volumes anyday.