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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (2040)	8/21/1998 4:11:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

*Sean, it may on paper be more effecient, but are you telling me a person with a 1 gig HD is going to notice an increase in speed???* Speed No. Increase in free space. FAT32 is always slower than FAT16 but only by a few percentage points. The advantages of FAT32 are better utilization of space and support for larger partitions. MS is full of S%&*^. FAT 32 has been benchmarked slower but PC, PC World, Tom's Hardware Page, & Me. I guess it would definetly be faster on drives larger than 2Gig as you can't have a FAT16 drive > 2gig therefore something is always > than 0. You never previously mentioned speed. You said NO ADVANTAGE and there are tremendous advantages just not in the area of speed. Sean