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A big fat, NTFS question
« on: August 11, 2005, 12:21:40 AM »
Hum,
I run winuae with a workbench installed into normal PC folders (rather than use a virtual HF or HD) a system that I’ve found to work extremely well.

However, I run that Hard drive that the folders are in with  FAT32  rather than NTFS.
(windows XP is on another drive with NTFS)…

Any thoughts about using NTFS over FAT?
(Apart from windows read speed/stability)

What do other ppl use?

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Re: A big fat, NTFS question
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2005, 06:36:31 PM »
@whabang
Yeah, NTFS is more reliable,
 but i find FAT  gives slightly better read speeds on smaller drives, and I also use that drive for my windows paging file.

Also by `upgrading` the file system the default cluster size will be 512 bytes instead of the 4kb that a clean format of NTFS provides.

So I think I’ll personally  be sticking with the fat solution until it goes pear shaped…