Which File System You Are Using, NTFS Or FAT32?
Which file system are you using on your pc, NTFS or still using FAT32?
What i have experienced that many (NOT SOME) users are still using
FAT32 file system on even Windows XP without any reason. So this topic
is especially for those users to tell them that its time to switch to
NTFS. They will say why?
OK here are the reasons.
1. NTFS is more secure and your DATA is less vulnerable on it as compare to FAT32.
2. In FAT32 maximum file size limit is 4GB, NTFS have no limit. (3 Days ago i captured a 2 hours
VHS movie on my computer and it become 48GB avi file unless i encoded it and burnt to DVD) So its impossible to work with
suck projects on FAT32.
3. Yesterday i run defragment operation on a 40 GB partition using FAT32 file system and it took around 5 Hours to complete
while the same Job was done on another 40 GB NTFS partition which was even more fragmented in less then 20 Minutes.
4. If your harddisk is SATA and you are using FAT32 partition then it means that your harddisk is running on its
40% resources only.
5. Windows VISTA is not supported on FAT32 partitions.
6. I have been a member of VideoHelp forum for a while now and i have experienced that one of the main issue of
audio/video sync problems during capturing, encoding and editing movies is FAT32 because of its slow transfer rate.
7. If you have got less RAM, lets say 512MB, then your games will stutter more on FAT32 as compare to NTFS because
the data has to be accessed from harddisk from time to time other then RAM and FAT32 has very crappy DATA transfer rate.
There are tons of other reasons and i will update it as i remember them. :D :D :D
A poll is also created so please vote.
Regards,
Sohaib
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