CrazyDawg opened this issue on Nov 29, 2005 ยท 20 posts
drawbridgep posted Tue, 29 November 2005 at 9:28 PM
Flak is right about file allocation. In the old days, a 1byte file would still take 4k (or whatever, depending on the size of the partition). WHich means there's a lot of wasted space and NTFS is more efficient with the file allocation. Another thing is that FAT32 has a limit on the file size of each file. 4gb I think. Which shouldn't be a problem, unless you're doing something that could be illegal, like making backup copies of DVD's onto the hard drive. Not that I would ever do that and do not condone piracy of any kind. The only issue I had was when my machine went belly up and I tried to plug my HDD into an old machine in order to recover the data and couldn't since the old machine couldn't read NTFS drives. I've not had any software that won't run on NTFS.