NTFS vs. FAT32 <--Speed & Performance

[Fuzz009]

I read the HDD FAQ so please prevent yourself from flaming. I also did a search in the forums for my question. I myself could not find the answer I was looking for.

Anyway.

I have a new 80 gig wd I want to install ntfs since xp will allow up to 32gig partion. Read in help.

Now I don't want to chop up the hd into a bunch of pieces.

I use my rig mainly for GAMING. So speed and performance is my main concern.

I see in the HD FAQ ntfs is reportly 5 % slower?

Where was this info taken from And will i see this 5% decrease in speed with ntfs?

I am a little weird when it comes to these retarded details but anything that can prevent maxium power seems to craze me?! I ponder back and forth and everybody seems to have something other to say.

Thanks for all replies and your time taken to read this.

Fuzz

 

[marneus]

NTFS is more stable but Fat32 is a faster...
but would U actually notice the difference, probably only if you run comparative sisoft/pcmark tests on clean installs...

no-one shouts louder than someone who is being ignored, or in the case of techies, to be heard over the noise of their PC's ;-)

 

[lhgpoobaa]

well that 5% is a very rough average...
and honestly you wont notice unless you do benchmarks.

when i migrated to win2k i started off as part ntfs part fat32 on the same drive. and honestly i didnt notice a difference... except for all the advantages that ntfs brings.

now im running full ntfs, and every thing is fast and rosy.

just remember to do a defrag every now and again and you will be right.

<b>My CPU cooler is so Massive it bends Space and Time! </b>

 

[HammerBot]

I know little about the performance gain. But if you prefer large FAT32 drives under WXP it is possible without creating a lot of small partitions:

If you have access to a machine with Win98 or WinME, you can create your partitions on that. WXP can read a FAT32 partition large than 32GB. You just cant create it. Another way is to use partition magic to partition the drive under XP.