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PostIcon Posted on: Apr. 30 2001,23:24  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
which one is faster / more appropriate for a gaming rig?
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FAT32 I s'pose, especially if you want to play older games as well...
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good thats what i did. i wasnt sure if ntfs was faster or something for win2k or not.
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Well I think syf0ns comment was more about not using win2k as a games pllatform.. but anyway,

I don't know which is faster, and i doubt there's much in it, but ntfs has some features that FAT doesn't (support for compressed folders, encyrpted folders etc.)

On the down side, ntfs is not compatible with win9x, so if a dual-boot is a possibility you might wanna choose FAT..

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NTFS is superior to FAT32.
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in what way is it superior? im not really worried about playing older games or dual boot, nor am i concerned about encrypted folders. what other differences are there? unfortunately i already downloaded most of the win2k service pakcs and crap which took all night, and i dont wanna start all over, unless ntfs is better.
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It wouldn't really be necessary to start over, there's a format conversion utility.

err, ntfs supports hard links, there's that.. difference in cluster size.

But if you're not planning on using any of NTFSs fancy features then i doubt there'd be much in it, especially as hard disk performance is only incidentally contingent to overall system performance (ie, double your hard disk speed, and you'll have about a 10\% faster system.)
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At work, all computers are Win2K with NTFS. It's mostly for security and stability purposes, and there are probably slight speed advantages. Indexing, encrypted folders, individual security sets on folders... etc.

For a home computer, I'd recommend FAT32. For one, you have dual boot. Also, you're not protecting proprietary documents. And, in the event of catastrophic failure, you can get your data out of a FAT32 disk much easier than an NTFS disk. It's just a matter of making your life easier.

I use NTFS at home on my drives because I'm super-l33t. But, that's just me.

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ah crap now i wish i did use ntfs.
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You can switch formats. Go to win2ks command prompt and type

help convert

it'll tell you about the file system changer util...

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