120 Gb Drive*

[[SiN]]

Quote:

Originally posted by Cyberion@Jul 14 2003, 08:33 PM
I always thought that for JUST storage you would go for FATxx.* Is the Master File System (¿NTFS?) better for storage files, big or small?

Well NTFS can store a file as large as the disk space availale (well currently at least... the maximum size of a file is like 2^64 bytes, and I dont see one of them drives commin a long for a while), while FAT32 is limited to 4GB (cant say I ever saved a file as large as a 120GB drive lol)

Generally, NTFS on larger size drives/partitions is faster. While, FAT is faster on smaller drives. Faster, being the aaccess time to the file on the drive.

Another thing, more important, is the cluster size between NTFS and FAT. As you increase the volume or partition size in a FAT32 system, the cluster size also increases. The cluster size ranges from 4K to 32K. You reach the 32K maximum with drives larger than 32 gigabytes, at least according to Microsoft. FAT can have large minimum cluster sizes that reduce the usable storage space on the volume. The largest NTFS cluster size is 4KB, even on volumes larger than 2GB. Because NTFS uses small clusters better and has a more efficient design, its performance doesn't degrade with large volumes, in contrast to FAT's. Remember, if a file is lets say 3 k, on an NTFS volume you are only wasting 1k of space, on the other hand on a FAT volume with the clusters at 32 k you waste a lot 29k for that one file is lost (on a drive 32GB and >).