Hard Disk, NTFS or FAT32?

Question

Tell me which system NTFS or FAT32 will better for me and why?

My pc is avrg. quality!

Do data run fast in NTFS?

Answer 1

I would do NTFS.

NTFS may be faster...
- smaller RAM footprint as avoids large FAT held in RAM
- indexed design more efficient for many files per directory
- small file data embedded in dir level, avoids seek to data chain
- above factors make fragmentation less onerous than for FATxx
- 4k cluster size matches processor's natural paging size
...or slower...
- extra overhead of security checks, compression, encryption
- small clusters may fragment data cluster chains

NTFS may be safer...
- transaction rollback cleanly undoes interrupted operations
- file-level permissions can protect data against malware etc.
- automatically "fixes" failing clusters on the fly (controversial)
...or more at risk...
- no interactive file system checker (a la Scandisk) for NTFS
- no maintenance OS for NTFS
- malware can drill right through NTFS protection, e.g. Witty
- transaction rollback does not preserve user data
- transaction rollback does not help other causes of corruption
- more limited range of maintenance tools
- automatically "fixes" failing clusters on the fly (controversial)

NTFS may be more space-efficient...
- smaller cluster size than FAT32 above 8G
- may include data of small files within the directory level
- NTFS's bitmap structure is smaller than FAT32's dual FAT
- sparse files and compression can reduce data space usage
...or less so...
- NTFS has large MFT structure
- larger per-file directory metadata space

I would use NTFS where:

Users have professional-grade IT admin, including backup
Users need to hide data more than they need to salvage it
Applications require files over 4G in size
Hard drive exceeds the 137G barrier
But while NTFS has no maintenance OS from which...

Data can easily be recovered
File system structure can be manually checked and repaired
Malware can be scanned for and cleaned

Answer 2

NTFS is more reliable file system. Fat32 was what Windows 98 used and is more prone to losing files and crashing.
Stick with NTFS and you will be happy. Also, you may want to research how large of a block you want your data to be when you format. Either leave it at automatic or choose the 512 or you will be wasting alot of hard drive space for a few bytes of data.

Answer 3

If you want to have multiple OS go for fat32 or else go for NTFS

Answer 4

NTFS easier to recover from errors.

Answer 5

Like Prasad Gupte said NTFS provides better security and features. You can actually convert FAT32 partitions to NTFS without affecting the data on the hard drive.

Answer 6

FAT32

Answer 7

if u use win xp , then NTFS