Here is what MS says about FAT and NTFS http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q100108
I'd say that if you want "portability" (you use your drive with several platforms) FAT32 is the way to go. If your environment is homogeneous (All Windows systems) I'd use NTFS. In regards to performance if you're using an external USB drive you won't gain much on performance with NTFS as the USB connection becomes the bottleneck. Don't quote me, but I believe that the performance advantage of NTFS is due to its smaller clusters size. Btw, I have seen FAT32 partitions formatted using 3rd party applications that are larger that the "officially" Windows supported size. FAT32 4GB limitation on file size comes into play if you use the drive for backup because backup applications can create files that are larger than that. NTFS also provides better security, but if you're using the drive just to store music files I don't see the need for security and its overhead. -- tamanaco ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tamanaco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4620 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70142 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
