re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Friday, September 13, 2002 at 3:12 pm
Posted by DComeau
(1 messages posted)
Historically a FAT parititions were faster than NTFS partitions. NTFS partitions
were "fault" tolerant, meaning that they kept transactions of the operating system.
If you were to write out a file, the file would get written then a log/transaction
entry would be made stating that the file was written. So, for each file write,
two disk writes would occur. This was done that if the system crashed before the
file was written (or the log), the system could be recovered to a known state. FAT
partitions do not have this feature.
However, given the latest speed in disk drives, I would suggest using NTFS. If
you NEED a FAT partition, create two. One NTFS and the other FAT.
On Sunday, June 2, 2002 at 6:47 am, WileMark wrote:
>I have a question about Clean
>up your hard disk:
>
>I am about to install a new 80gig HD and will be running some older programs using
>the Fat32 system and some newer programs which I think I should run on a disk formatted
>with NT. Which will work best?
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