Fat32 or Ntfs

Greetings, Roman! September 11, 2001 (it was 12:23 then) Roman Alexandrov in his letter to All wrote: RA> Does NTFS have any advantages over FAT32, provided that RA> the computer is purely single-user, no need to share RA> there is no access and encryption, and the use of compressed directories and RA> files are not expected. yes. protection against failures, hard and symlinks, significantly higher file search speed in the catalog === Quoting the Windows Clipboard file === Working with large disks. NTFS has a cluster size of 512 bytes, which is in principle optimal, but it can be changed up to 64K. More importantly, NTFS theoretically capable of working with volumes of 16,777,216 terabytes in size. Theoretically, because such hard drives simply do not exist yet, and They won't appear anytime soon. Sustainability. NTFS contains two copies of the FAT analogue, which are called MFT (Master File Table). Unlike FAT MSDOS, MFT is more like database table. If the original MFT is damaged due to a hardware error (for example, the appearance of a bad sector), then the system at the next boot uses a copy of MFT, and automatically creates a new original, taking into account damage. But this is not the most important thing. The main thing is that NTFS uses the systemtransactions when writing files to disk. This system came from the DBMS, where Protecting data integrity is vital. ISO Unicode format support. Unicode format uses 16bit for encoding of each character, unlike ASCII which used 8bit, or even worse - 7bit. For the average user this means that now it can name files in any language, even in Chinese - the system is will support without requiring you to change the code page, as DOS did and W9x. NTFS5 added such a feature as mount points or, in other words, junction points. This function has long been familiar to users various variants of Unix/Linux, but it appeared in Microsoft products for the first time. Using this technology, you can attach any disk resource to any location in the file system. For example, you can connect a hard drive D: to any of the directories on the C: drive, for example, in C: games Now, having gone to directory C:games, you can see the contents of the root directory of the disk D:. All changes that are made to this directory will be produced on drive D:. After this, you can go to the Computer management window -> Disk Management remove the letter assigned to this disk (Change disk letter and path), and the user will not even know what is on the computer two disks installed ===End quote ===Best regards, Artem