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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Performance and Maintainance / October 2006why would speed of ntfs do
running xp-pro-fat32. wifes office comp is the same. she has a medical program that is about 110 mb. she uses 2 different sandisk for daily backup, usb-2. Takes about 15 minutes for this, really slow. Saw this on a search of google, by someone else doing this. I formatted the sandisk with the ntfs file system, did the backup in about 2 to 3 minutes. Tried several times, result the same. Could not run the program (Gov. Hippa laws forbid me to see patient info.), but I assume that all info was there, backed up. (size was the same-and program would open) Why would the comp (fat32) backup to this sandisk (now ntfs) that much faster? I can see faster, but this much faster. Would it do this for the whole computer? FAT32 is, theoretically, faster than NTFS because it has less overhead. But we're not talking about anything that you could actually notice. I'm going to guess you're referring to a USB flash drive, since Sandisk is a brand name, not a product. It's debatable whether there's any sense in formatting a flash drive with a journaling file system. In any case, you haven't provided any details about the backup, so it's anybody's guess. --- Ted Zieglar "Backup is a computer user's best friend." > running xp-pro-fat32. wifes office comp is the same. she has a medical > program that is about 110 mb. she uses 2 different sandisk for daily [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Would it do this for the whole computer? Ted Was just my assumption, yes it is one of their usb flash drives. What would you need to know about the backup other than the 100 mb size as to venture a guess as to why the backup ran so much faster this way? It was a straight forward copy to the drive. Bob > FAT32 is, theoretically, faster than NTFS because it has less overhead. > But we're not talking about anything that you could actually notice. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >> >> Would it do this for the whole computer? Using what software? How configured? Was anything else running in the background? --- Ted Zieglar "Backup is a computer user's best friend." > Ted > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >>> >>> Would it do this for the whole computer? selected the "pro-manager" program and all data files in explorer, right click, copy to drive. normal window services running. > Using what software? How configured? Was anything else running in the > background? [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >>>> >>>> Would it do this for the whole computer? |
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