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Rednroll wrote on 9/9/2001, 11:14 PM
I'm not sure which is better for working with audio apps, but I can tell you this much. NTFS is a true 32bit storage system. Also, with NTFS you don't run into the 4 gig file size limitation that you do with FAT32, this might not be much of a problem with audio as it is with video though.
FadeToBlack wrote on 9/11/2001, 12:13 AM
theigloo wrote on 9/11/2001, 1:27 AM
I disagree... all benchmarks I've read show that NFFS has a more elegant architecture. Faster transfer with less cpu usage.

I think the main thing is that you have udma enabled. That will be your biggest performance gain.

Don't forget the security features of NTFS. You may not think it's so important - but go to www.zonelabs.com and download yourself a free firewall and see how many nut-balls try to get into your machine. It's about 1 every 20 minutes. Be careful.

-m
Cheesehole wrote on 9/12/2001, 1:00 AM
i doubt anyone is trying to hack into your machine every 20 minutes. the vast majority of those messages are from servers with which you have established a connection, but they have not properly disconnected from you. they are completely benign. no sense in leaving the door open... i run zonealarm too, but no reason to be paranoid! it's more useful to see what programs are trying to get OUT to the internet then anything else.
MacMoney wrote on 9/12/2001, 7:58 AM
Im running a P4 1.7 on Win2k sp2
My OS drive (EIDE) is NTFS, My recording drives (SCSI 160) is FAT32. A guy named Scott Hilliard built this system and told me why he set it up like this, I just said OK. It nevers lock, skips, crash or talks back. Soooo no need to fix something that's not broke!
GW
Rednroll wrote on 9/13/2001, 7:24 AM
I had a similar question like this, but I was thinking about doing the oposite. I was gonna put, my OS on a FAT32 and record my audio/video on a seperate drive with NTFS. If I did this, would I not have the 4 gig size limitation on files that I recorded onto the NTFS drive? This scenario also gives me the option to run a dual boot system with Win98 and Win2k on the same machine....seeing win98 doesn't support NTFS.
Cheesehole wrote on 9/13/2001, 8:34 PM
Here is a common setup in my studio:

Drive 1 is a fast IDE drive with 3 partitions.
Partition 1: Fat16 2GB for Win2k or XP
Partition 2: Fat16 2GB for Win98
Partition 3: Fat32 rest of GB for Applications and Swapfile

Drive 2 is fast IDE or SCSI and is dedicated to video/audio data. 1 partition formatted NTFS.

Works nicely for me...