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What are the advantages of NTFS over FAT32?
Answer:
- Is the native file system for WinNT/2k/XP
- Allows indexing which improves file searching (mostly, faster); causes slight performance hit (can turn off).
- Has better security -- such as file-wise encryption (not supported by WinXP home) and per-user access rules (you can stop your wife from seeing the porn folder!)
- Supports user quotas (prevent the tykes from downloading too many mp3s)
- Has file-wise compression.
- Is journaled, decreasing data loss (ScanDisk at start up unnecessary).
- Uses Unicode (allows foreign and extended character) file names and natively supports long file names.
- Supports larger files than FAT (greater than 4GB).
- Allows larger volume sizes (greater than 1TB) There is talk about a theoretical limit of 16 Exabytes, and up to 2 Terabytes.
- Supported format on dynamic disks (no dynamic disks on WinXP Home).
- Works well with large cache (greater than 96MB systems).
- Performs better on volumes ~20GB and more.
- Is more space-efficient on large volumes (greater than 8GB).
- Resistant to fragmentation.
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