NTFS vs FAT32

[BigBadBob]

i am getting money for schistmas and am gonna geta 40 or 60 gb 7200 rpm hard drive and 256 or 512 mb of extra ram. i am going to install windows 2000 on the new hard drive. Is it better for me to set it up as FAT32 or NTFS? I am going to be doing video recording and editing of tv shows. Which one is better? Thanks for any help.

bob

[kr0n0s]

ntfs is supposed to offer encription and stability

but man .. it takes a long time to defragment

[jandor]

It depends. I would much rather use fat32 if you are going to spend time in dos moving files around like I do. If you are going to be a straight windows environment type of guy go with ntfs and that way you can catagorize your drives better.

[BigBadBob]

well i dont use dos, but i was thinking that FAT32 is better for not getting as many out of sync problems but now that i think about it i am getting an extra 512mb ram so i will have 576 mb. So i guess that will give better video editing. also Win2000 with NTFS will sometimes freeze at about 8 minutes of playing a file and i have to restart the file. I am thinking this happens because of the compression in NTFS or something. They play fine in Win98SE but its too unreliable for me. I havenet restarted Win2000 in a week and video editing and recording is just as good as it is when i resttart.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: BigBadBob on 2001-12-15 00:42:41 ]</font>