to compress or not to compress?

[TippeX]

well if u have a max partition size of 4 gig, max file size is 4 gig, but i know mx partition size of fat32 is bigger than that, try running fdisk .. i have multiple partitions > 4 gig some of the partitions are fat32 and i know the max file size on them is 4 gig i've tried, to do successful dvd rips etc etc u need ntfs really

[DABhand]

We are obviously not connecting here lol


Microsoft are saying that FAT32 can handle reading files from blocks of 4GB on a partition. But reading a 4GB file and managing it, is very very slow on FAT32..

On the other hand, NTFS can deal with files on a infinte sized blocks of a partition, but handles reading of 4GB sized files smoothly and effeciently..

Im not talking about partition sizes that can be used.


A test is easy, get a game that uses a compressed data file of 2GB or more (i.e. contains files for the game)..

During level loads, FAT32 partition will be slower to read from that 2GB file, NTFS will race through it.