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FAT32 disk is much faster but I can't see why
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?????? |
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FAT32 disk is much faster but I can't see why
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FAT32 disk is much faster but I can't see why
If it's a disk diagnostic then any difference in performance should be a
result of differences in the disks, not the file system. Many factors affect disk drive performance in addition to rotation speed and seek times, but the most important question to ask would be exactly what that diagnostic is testing. There are a lot of different measures of disk performance. And of course it's possible that the disk diagnostic is actually being affected by the file system, in which case knowing exactly what is being tested is even more important. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) wrote in message oups.com... 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?????? |
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FAT32 disk is much faster but I can't see why
wrote in message oups.com... 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 |
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