Originally Posted by Background Noise
I guess I was just surprised having thought that NTFS was the newer, and therefore better(
) system.
Newer isn't
always better, but I sort of thought we'd established in this discussion that NTFS was, for all except quite special situations, a great deal better than the old FAT32 filesystem.
I think IO540 is completely wrong.
Whatever tiny speed advantages that might possibly be gained under special situations from using a simple old filesystem are completely negated by the many advantages and much increased robustness of a journalled filesystem like NTFS. Why do you think people use journalled systems? To deliberately slow their machines down? Jeez!
As for the idea of using what is effectively an obsolete filesystem on a new dual-core notebook...words fail me!
PS: My wife's Asus notebook also came with the primary partition formatted as FAT32. I've no idea why they do this. First thing I did was convert is to NTFS.
PS: Loose rivets - NTFS also fragments, but the fragmentation has less effect on speed, so defragging all the time isn't so important.