Hi: I have an extenal WD passport drive. I cannot download files larger than 4GB because it is based on FAT32. What is the down side of changing it to NTFS? Thanks.
Changing from FAT32 to NTFS
- 29 Jul 2008 #1My System Specs
Changing from FAT32 to NTFS
- 29 Jul 2008 #2
Antidisestablishmentarian
My System SpecsRe: Changing from FAT32 to NTFS
Hi, flyingfox100, and welcome to the forums.
Honestly, not a lot - files on NTFS systems are more secure, but a small system performance (and I mean *extremely* small) hit is that it writes extra information about the file for security purposes when it writes the file. The Last accessed time can be a small PITA on external drives because files that get 'touched' a lot will constantly be getting updated. Finally, If you take the drive to a machine running an older version of Windows (think 9x) then you may not be able to read the drive.
- 29 Jul 2008 #3
Senior Member My System SpecsRe: Changing from FAT32 to NTFS
What he said.
And I would like to add that I always reformat externals to NTFS. Even flash drives. They just work better.
- 29 Jul 2008 #4
Antidisestablishmentarian My System SpecsRe: Changing from FAT32 to NTFS
Thanks :P
And what *he* said after.
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