the more free space on a drive, the less likely a drive will have file fragmentation. with NTFS, the cluster size stays at 4K all the way out past 200GB. if Tanya continues to shoot RAW at the rate that she describes, she will shoot about 4-6 GB of images each shoot.
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "mapson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 8:39 PM Subject: Re: OT - A computer Question... > I am not an IT expert, but my understanding is that the drives should not > be kept at such big sizes. Especially the OS and ones that have progs on > them. They get fragmented easily - imagine defragmenting such a monster! > Personally I would not make the C drive more than 8Gb in FAT and more than > 20Gb in NTFS. That is my personal preferrence.
