ntfs vs fat32 for readyboost thumb drive

exodusprime1337 · Aug 11, 2008

i've got a cruzer micro u3 4gig drive for readyboost, should i ust ntfs or fat32??

B1gg3stN00b · Aug 11, 2008

Fat32, it's faster.

francis511 · Aug 11, 2008

Hayder_Master · Aug 11, 2008

B1gg3stN00b said:
Fat32, it's faster.

fat23 is faster , :ohwell:

AddSub · Aug 11, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sdG0eQh87Q

Deleted member 3 · Aug 11, 2008

B1gg3stN00b said:
Fat32, it's faster.

Fat32 performance is worse on large volumes. However, considering it's a USB disk, FAT32 might be a better choice as random devices tend to support FAT32 and not NTFS. Additionally hotswapping is easier.

I don't think readyboost will care much either way. Look for some benchmarks I'd say.

Hayder_Master · Aug 11, 2008

+1 fat32 can't read 4g file size

Tatty_Two · Aug 11, 2008

As said, FAT32 is faster for smaller drives, NTFS for bigger, also, once NTFS....always NTFS so go FAT.

Hayder_Master · Aug 11, 2008

so what about ssd drive it is same thing , i don't think so

Tatty_Two · Aug 11, 2008

hayder.master said:
so what about ssd drive it is same thing , i don't think so

You dont normally get Biiiggggg SS drives so IMO it would be foolish to use NTFS as file access times are slower which kind of defeats the object. My 80gig drive is FAT32, my 250gig drive is NTFS. At the end of the day it's about personal choice tho.

alexp999 · Aug 11, 2008

Just out of interest, is this for your rig in the System specs? IMO, you really wont need it, and TBH with 2gb of ram at that speed I cant imagine you will see any difference. Feel free to give it a go tho. Maybe do some benches to compare.

Hayder_Master · Aug 11, 2008

Tatty_One said:
You dont normally get Biiiggggg SS drives so IMO it would be foolish to use NTFS as file access times are slower which kind of defeats the object. My 80gig drive is FAT32, my 250gig drive is NTFS. At the end of the day it's about personal choice tho.

interesting , cuz i have an idea which is it buy small ssd like 16g and put only windows on it , and my slave 320 hd , so it is good or not , as you say sure im use fat32 with ssd

Tatty_Two · Aug 11, 2008

hayder.master said:
interesting , cuz i have an idea which is it buy small ssd like 16g and put only windows on it , and my slave 320 hd , so it is good or not , as you say sure im use fat32 with ssd

Yes that would be good but TBH, for performance you can buy the cheapest smallest 2nd hand SATA drive and just allocate the page file to that drive and apparently you will get upto a 15% speed increase by just doing that.......supposidly it is good NOT to have your page file on the same physical disk (unless partitioned) as your OS.

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