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Best partition size in NTFS
Name: Gunnar Andre Mo Date: September 14, 2002 at 01:44:44 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro CPU/Ram: amd 1133 / 512
Comment:
I've got a 60GB hdd formatted in ntfs and windows xp pro installed (4kb cluster size). I didn't partition the hdd, although some friends are claiming this would reduce loss of space.
Is this true? From my experience with FAT32 I understand how you loose about half the size of your cluster size for each file you got, on average. Since my 60GB ntfs cluster size claims to be 4kb, I dont understand how partitioning it would reduce this loss.
Name: Madman Date: September 14, 2002 at 05:30:30 Pacific
Reply:
The best reason for considering partitioning your hard drive is to lessen your risk should anything bad happen. Putting all your data in a separate partition, or even second HD, makes it quicker when you perform backups. Plus, it makes it easier to get into things like multi-boot if you already have partitions established. Like you, I don't necessarily see any space improvements in partitioning under NTFS.
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