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NTFS and VPC 6
I was playing around on Windows XP using VPC6 and I noticed the drive was fat32, I decided to convert it to ntfs and I believe I've noticed a slow-down in performance. Does this make any sense? or am I just imagining things?
NTFS and VPC 6
Maybe its uses default fat32 because it wount mount it if its ntfs? I dont know, but that might be the issue?
NTFS and VPC 6
NTFS isn't as fast as FAT32, because of the way it clusters files. It's rather an old system and though continuous reads can burst faster than FAT32, random read/writes access can be considerably slower. Also, because of larger cluster sizes (in some cases), NTFS users may end up using more disk space. However, I use NTFS on my Windows 2000 laptop (the only Windows version worth using, and that was before I discovered Panther) primarily because it's infinitely more stable than FAT32. With a FAT volume, any minor loss of integrity can lead to a major corruption (particularly on laptops, where physical damage is more common owing to shaking about). NTFS on the other hand is relatively easy to rescue after a file system crash/corruption. It also has far better security (on-the-fly encryption and compression that would break FAT32 in a second). I have VirtualPC on my PowerBook running Win2k and it's reasonably fast (1ghz g4, 512mb ram). I don't use it very often but it's actually faster than VNCing to my Win2k box.
NTFS and VPC 6
Performance decreases because of the added permission schemas that are found in NTFS, FAT32 had no security. |
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