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FAT 16 vs FAT32

Name: Chris
Date: June 20, 2001 at 15:27:09 Pacific

Comment:

Is there really that much of a performance differnece between FAT 16 and FAT 32? As far as speed when accessing information from the drive. I know there is a difference in the way data is stored between the two, but I wasn't sure of a great performance difference

Name: Ellis
Date: June 20, 2001 at 15:49:55 Pacific

Reply:

Nope - not really. It can decrease the the total disk utilization (size wise) if the majority of your files are very small. But so far as access time is concerned, no difference.

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Name: Kevin The Tech Dude
Date: June 20, 2001 at 18:53:43 Pacific

Reply:

Howdy, FAT 32 did one thing and one thing only. It broke the 2 GIG limit. Nothing more and nothing less. Laters, Kevin The Tech Dude

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