Ntfs slower than FAT 32 in some situations???

[The Wildcard]

I know this is off topic a bit, but i needed some quick opnions. Hello, although the overwhelming majority of you recommend NTFS, i have read that fat-32 can be fast in certain situaions, like for small partitions.

I have a 6gig hdd that i plan to format compleltley (no partitions) and load win2k on. It's my os hdd with all of my system files and some misc progs, like office 2000, etc, etc. I plan to let Win2k use the entire 6 gig hdd.

So should i use NTFS or Fat-32? I ask because win2k is not going to use ALL of the 6 gigs. I estimate that in total, only 2 gigs of the 6 gig hdd will be filled. The rest will just be empty space. I need some help.

 

[The Wildcard]

Bump!

 

[AndyHui]

Under certain situations, FAT32 may be faster, where NTFS has to cope with a large amount of security descriptors for files and directories....obviously the overhead would be slightly larger. I think in this case it is not going to make much difference, especially if you are not going to set various permissions for each and every file and folder.

 

[Whitedog]

The performance difference is not humanly noticable. NTFS is far superior. Format NTFS. Hell with 9x and FATx

 

[arthurb1]

Small means less than a GB...really not worht it for NTFS...security all the way baby, can lock up all of your files all the way down with NTFS...only way to do it, I still leave my System partition formatted wtih FAT32, so that I can get to it in case something funky happens (wouldn't believe some of the things that I have seen programs do to boot.ini) and fix it if stuff happens.

 

[The Wildcard]

Hmm that's why i might stick with fat32. someone in the operating systems forum mentioned that if something went wrong during the installation, i could still go to dos with the fat32 partition.

In addition, the only data on the OS hdd is just gonna be the OS and maybe some other files, so it won't be more than 1.5 - 2 gigs at most. I don't think NTFS will be worth it.

 

[Whitedog]

What... Ever...

 

[The Wildcard]

Hhahaha, okay then i'll go with ntfs! lol.

 

[arthurb1]

I admit FArT32 sucks...but my sys partition, of only 1GB is fat16 actually, not 32, the rest of my 2 Atlas II's is NTFS, and that is where I install stuff...to my D and E partitions.