Whats better NTFS or FAT systems?

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  • Va2k
    I’m still alive barley.
    • Oct 2001
    • 10060

    #1

    Whats better NTFS or FAT systems?

    What do you think is better. IM going to be formating this pc once I get my work caugfht upp and want to know what is better? Should I leave it fat or change it to NTFS

    TOM
  • KMR Stitch
    I am cool
    • Jul 2003
    • 14494

    #2
    fat32 = Window 98,95

    NTFS = Window 2000NT,XP

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    • =^..^=
      Confirmed User
      • Jan 2002
      • 6935

      #3
      I like a good fat
      #RememberYourRoots #AaronMForGFYHOF

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      • RFlagg
        Confirmed User
        • Oct 2003
        • 128

        #4
        NTFS all day long...waaay better security...less fragmentation...


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        • dunefield
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          • Feb 2003
          • 10920

          #5
          Originally posted by =^..^=
          I like a good fat

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          • hyper
            Confirmed User
            • Mar 2002
            • 5294

            #6
            ntfs is better

            if you transfer video u have a 4 gig file limit on Fat

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            • SoundMan
              So Fucking Banned
              • Nov 2003
              • 3471

              #7
              no FAT please!

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              • Va2k
                I’m still alive barley.
                • Oct 2001
                • 10060

                #8
                Originally posted by hyper
                ntfs is better

                if you transfer video u have a 4 gig file limit on Fat
                Okie okie then thats what I will do to this beast. I have it on my laptop but my laptop is way slower its only a pIII1.60gig with 720megs of ram and this beast is a PIIII 2.4gigs 1gig of ram *shrugs*

                TOM

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                • garett
                  Confirmed User
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 683

                  #9
                  I'll try to explain why NTFS is better.

                  FAT32 is basically one big extension after another. It evolved from the MS DOS file system.. which was kind of a "baby's first file system". It was limited. It didn't have very good fault protection .. it didn't handle fragmentation well at all. And it's block sizes were 4k I believe. Then FAT16 was born .. followed by FAT32 .. all extensions of eachother.

                  NTFS was written from the ground up. It is a journaled filesystem .. which means that every single operation that occurs is written in a journal. If the computer crashes and you lose data .. it can recreate blocks from the journal.

                  It also has other features such as file perrmisions .. and access control lists ... but you really only care about that if you're on a multi-user system.

                  NTFS is stable.. FAT is not. I really wouldn't trust my data on a FAT system at all.

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                  • 4Pics
                    Confirmed User
                    • Dec 2001
                    • 7952

                    #10
                    ntfs is better then you arent stuck with the crappy short file names.

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                    • SGS
                      Confirmed User
                      • Dec 2002
                      • 5176

                      #11
                      NTFS all the way
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                      • KRL
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                        • Oct 2002
                        • 31429

                        #12
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                        • riosluts
                          Confirmed User
                          • Sep 2003
                          • 5250

                          #13
                          Yeah but NTFS is actually slower. But You do get File security
                          , Encryption, Disk compression and support for large hard disks.
                          You also get a native support of long file names.

                          Its a tough decision really. I actually prefer speed to all those

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                          • Alex Xe

                            #14
                            ntfs, of course!

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                            • Ad3pt
                              Confirmed User
                              • Aug 2002
                              • 476

                              #15
                              Originally posted by RFlagg
                              NTFS all day long...waaay better security...less fragmentation...

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