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In article: <GJw4YBA6PUHzEwt$@moofware.demon.co.uk>  Alan J 
Dalziel <alan@moofware.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Recently taken delivery of a shiny new dec pentium 166 with NT4, 
however
> the hard disk is formatted as FAT, is there any speed benefits of
> reformatting as NTFS??  What do you think?
No.
NTFS is slower than FAT, though there is a 'crossover point', as the 
drive gets bigger. However in file-server applications, NTFS can 
perform better than FAT, with the right hardware. Do not go to NTFS 
'looking for speed gains', but move to it if you want a more 'data 
rugged' file-system, and security handleing. However, on a drive 
nearing the top of FAT's handling, I have found NTFS to be _very 
slightly_ faster, but we are talking a tiny percentage.

Best Wishes

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