OK....
Ok...I'll try to make this understandable.
Data is stored on the hard disk, in small pieces called 'clusters.'
Clusters are the root of where the data is stored. Say you put something on your hard drive, we'll say 5.25 MB...and the cluster size is .5 MB (this is JUST an example...there is no .5 MB cluster system in existence right now...except maybe in a museum...). Back to the subject...you put this 5.25 MB file on your hard disk, it takes up 10.5 clusters right? Actually, it takes up 11 clusters, because you can't partially fill a cluster, and once you put data on a cluster, it becomes used, so even putting a 1 byte file into the example above would take up .5 MB of disk space, and a .51 MB file would take up 1 MB of disk space.
Now onto the NTFS vs FAT32:
The default cluster size for FAT32 is 4 kb which isn't really bad, and with FAT32 you can change the cluster size, but you have to do it during the format of the drive, which, is slightly confusing to a non-techie type person, but who wants to be like me anyway.
The default cluster size for NTFS, is 2 kb, obviously more efficient than FAT32 unless you have the cluster size of FAT32 specified at less than or equal to 2 kb.
That's pretty much all...
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