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To: Spots who wrote (874)	5/27/1998 8:17:00 PM
From: Dave Hanson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

NTFS vs. FAT con't and Spot's setup Thanks for the thorough answer, Spots. I agree with you on all the NTFS advantages. Swap files: rule of thumb I've always been taught is put it on the most used partition of the least-used hard drive (unless there's a big performance difference between that drive and others.) This way there's less disk thrashing as the drive gets accessed. (Then again, we could just build Zeuspaul's dream machine, and forget disk accesses altogether after the initial bootup. <g>) Some say having big cluster sizes here helps (hence my question), but I don't imagine that would be at all significant. As for your big partitions: I'd like to just format some massive NTFS ones too, but for two reservations. First, I had a bad experience with partition magic 3.03 choking on a 4.5 gig partition last year, and PowerQuest never gave me a satisfactory answer as to what might have happened. I gather there were some fixes in 3.04, and that perhaps 3.05 would be just fine. Any experiences with this? Second, it might limit my Drive Image backup strategy, which I find extremely convenient (as discussed earlier). There may be ways around this, though. Best, Dave