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ntfs conversion
Name: rwoodennickel Date: May 19, 2005 at 17:11:00 Pacific OS: xp sp2 CPU/Ram: amd64 3000+/512ddr400
Comment:
I am trying to convert my xp drive to ntfs.What is a mystery to me is how to get get the chunk size to 4mb.Everything I have read says fat32 will convert,but with a 512mb chunk.I dont want to bother if converting will slow me down to a crawl.Any ideas would be appreciated,and I dont really want to spend a bunch O'money on 3rd party software.
Name: BuzzStPoint Date: May 19, 2005 at 17:13:05 Pacific
Reply:
depending on what you do, there may be no need to go NTFS..
If you a gamer.. stay with Fat32.. IF you are more buisness and lots of file saving, NTFS will be the way to go.. as for speed difference? In the Business aspect you will not notice any difference...
Name: fitzov Date: May 19, 2005 at 20:19:28 Pacific
Reply:
unless your mainly going to have text documents on your harddrive, i don't recommend using 4k cluster size. 4k is good for efficiency, but worse for performance. the larger the cluster size, the better the performance and the worse the efficiency (in terms of disk space).
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Response Number 4
Name: Nigel Spike Date: May 20, 2005 at 09:33:48 Pacific
Reply:
You can only get the 4k cluster size if you format to NTFS before install. Conversion from FAT32 gives the bigger cluster size.
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