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From a tehnical perspective NTFS is superior. Even if you don't use the bonus featues, NTFS is better becuase it tends to get fragmented a lot less than FAT32, and due to it's design it's almost impossible that all the directory structures will get corrupted.

I've used NTFS almost the same amount of time as I've been using FAT32. With FAT32 on a few occassions something scrwed up with the FATs and I lost EVERYTHING on that disk. On NTFS I've never had any problems (except two disks which physically failed). From what I hear future MS operating systems are unlikely to function properly with FAT33, so it looks like FAT is being phased out. Go for the upgrade.