Sorry for the sharing mistake. It was meant to go with a previous statement. Sorry
about the file limitation of 1GB. Actually, I though the file size limitation was
related to the block size you set for you FAT file system. My mistake.
As for the other stuff, my NTFS seems to outperform my FAT32 by about 25% in speed.
Though I do defragment it every once in awhile, it also defragments 400% faster than
my FAT32 partition.
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Brian Guralnick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Gilley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Computer Shopping
| At 07:28 PM 5/30/2001 -0400, Brian Guralnick wrote:
| >One last thing on #2, Win2K has a better & faster & secure file system
| >called NTFS. It which supports files larger than 1GB. Instead of
| >compressing the drive, individual folders may have compression on, or
| >off. (useful for just my text document drawer). True network shares
| >which allow you to have different users logged in & give them access to
| >specific drawers on your HD. And on and on...
|
| I'm not trying to be contrary for its own sake, but let me make a few
| points here about something I have pulled my hair out over quite a few
| times :) Correct me if I'm wrong, but the sharing in Win2K is the same for
| NTFS or FAT drives?
| There are certainly some tradeoffs with NTFS. Whether NTFS is "better" is
| certainly a matter of debate, and depends largely on your situation. I
| used to be a network administrator, and have had to deal with NTFS volume
| corruption on many an occasion.
|
| The main advantage (today) of NTFS is volume security. If you need this,
| then you have little recourse. A secondary advantage (before the advent of
| FAT32) was that it was able to handle large disks. I have occasionally
| heard claims that NTFS is faster, and theoretically it could be under
| certain conditions, but then again FAT32 should be faster under other
| conditions.
|
| The main problem with NTFS is that recovery options are shockingly limited
| should anything go seriously wrong with a NTFS volume. (Anyone out there
| have nightmares of chkdsk?) The truth is, if an NTFS volume gets very
| corrupted, you really have no way of repairing it. Formatting is often the
| only stable fix. NTFS is also prone to unexplainable problems that chkdsk
| cannot seem to detect/correct. Admittedly, outside of a high usage
| (server) type situation these problems are relatively uncommon.
|
| NTFS also has a number of characteristic differences- Unlike FAT, which
| uses a "fixed grid" allocation system of clusters, NTFS utilizes a sort of
| "sliding grid" (for lack of a better term) allocation system. If the gap
| between 2 files on a volume becomes smaller than a certain amount, (varies
| by disk size) the space between them cannot be utilized by NTFS. This is
| NTFS' version of wasted "Slack Space" that we are familiar with in FAT
| systems, where a cluster is the smallest allocatable unit and all files are
| rounded up to the next cluster. The difference is this: In a FAT system a
| given set of files will always have exactly the same amount of wasted slack
| space. Under NTFS slack space can vary in the upward direction based on
| files' relative positions to each other. This extra slack space can
| sometimes become very significant. This is usually not much of a problem
| unless volumes are allowed to heavily fragment, or there is much file
| creation/deletion activity over time. The problem is magnified with small
| files.
|
| I guess the point is this: NTFS is different. Not necessarily
| better. Know the tradeoffs before you convert; you can't undo it.
|
| Btw, the max file size for a FAT drive is 2Gb, not 1Gb.
|
| -Frank
|
|
| Frank Gilley
| Dell-Star Technologies
| (918) 838-1973 Phone
| (918) 838-8814 Fax
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| http://www.dellstar.com
|
|
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