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On Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:59:22 +0000, Alan J Dalziel
<alan@moofware.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>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?

Unless you have a quite large drive (>2GB I think - top  of head
figure) then you won't get any speed advantage.  What you do get
though is a much more robust file system.  NTFS uses a rollback system
so that if a disk write fails it can roll the file system back to a
'clean' state using it's log file.

NTFS also allows you to use NT's security features to prevent any
unauthorized or unwanted use of your PC, and also a more economical
use of disk space (512 Byte clusters for a 1 GB drive as opposed to 16
KByte clusters using FAT)


-- 
Kevin Bennett
sorceror@stygia.demon.co.uk