NTFS slower?

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In your situation, I'd probably get a second drive and copy across
rather than trying to do everything in place. If you proceed as you
are, it's probably only a matter of time before you lose everything,
so I hope you have a good backup.

Perhaps you now have a better understanding why people like Unix and
Linux.
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So, I copied several partitions so far and did benchmarks.

With 4K clusters, 7% slower than 8k fat32, as opposed to 30% slower with 512
byte clusters.

My problem is still going to be copying the WinXP boot drive.
I know it won't boot afterwards.

Anyway, I use SunOS at work exclusively and Linux for develpment at home.

Tom
 
Tom said:
So, I copied several partitions so far and did benchmarks.

With 4K clusters, 7% slower than 8k fat32, as opposed to 30% slower with 512
byte clusters.

My problem is still going to be copying the WinXP boot drive.
I know it won't boot afterwards.

Anyway, I use SunOS at work exclusively and Linux for develpment at home.
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Wise man.
 
120 Gig WD drive, converted from FAT32 to NTFS and now everything (file/game
map loading) seems to take at least 20% longer.
Windows directory file access, etc. are all much slower.

I only converted because it was supposed to be faster.

Any ideas?
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I switched and yeah, disk operations are dog slow. I think it's just
the operating system that's faster due to 32bit and all that.

I tried the win2k defragmenter for several months and had nothing but
grief with big drives 200G+. I tried the perfectdisk 30day free trial
and it solved all my problems. It's worth it just for the defrag
speed increase. But it fixed a lot of those boot time MTF (or
whatever) issues.

The more I use windows2k, the more annoyed I get with Microsoft in
general. All the little niggling petty stuff that never gets resolved
is ridiculous. It takes a long time, but eventually you realize that
Bill is just taking you for a ride now.

The only way to make it work at all is to junk as many microsoft
programs (browser, email, newsgroups, file manager, defragmenter,
media player, etc etc) as you can and use second party (eg shareware)
programs.

I see linux in the future.
 
I switched and yeah, disk operations are dog slow. I think it's just
the operating system that's faster due to 32bit and all that.

I tried the win2k defragmenter for several months and had nothing but
grief with big drives 200G+. I tried the perfectdisk 30day free trial
and it solved all my problems. It's worth it just for the defrag
speed increase. But it fixed a lot of those boot time MTF (or
whatever) issues.

The more I use windows2k, the more annoyed I get with Microsoft in
general. All the little niggling petty stuff that never gets resolved
is ridiculous. It takes a long time, but eventually you realize that
Bill is just taking you for a ride now.

The only way to make it work at all is to junk as many microsoft
programs (browser, email, newsgroups, file manager, defragmenter,
media player, etc etc) as you can and use second party (eg shareware)
programs.

I see linux in the future.
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And you'll have plenty of niggles with that too.
 
I switched and yeah, disk operations are dog slow. I think it's just
the operating system that's faster due to 32bit and all that.
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From the Start menu, run 'cmd' and then from the dos like box, run 'chkdsk
c:' and check your cluster size.
<n> number of bytes in allocation unit.

n == cluster size.

My performance increased to slightly faster than fat32 after reformatting to
ntfs @4k and copying all of my files and system over.
You can't use Drive Image because it images at the original clucter size,
which is rediculous.
 
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