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I have a PC with 98SE and two hard disks.
One is FAT16 the other FAT32. I tried a disk diagnostic
program yesterday, and it said the FAT32 disk was scoring
almost 3 times as many bytes/second as the FAT16!
Now I was told there is little difference in performance
if you change a disk from FAT16 to FAT32.
I looked at disk specifications: both are same RPM, same
size cache. The FAT32 disk has seek time 0.5 ms less than
the other. So why is is so much faster??????



The true test would be to convert the fat16 drive to fat32...
chances are the speed would not change...
it's simply that the drives themselves have differences