partition to fat32 or ntfs?

[Bretenn]

ok... i hav 1gig of ram... two disk in same ide
and i decided to make a partition on the second disk for the pagefile... i set it to 2gig rather than 1.5....!
should i partition it to ntfs or fat32??

 

[Iceman]

doesn't really matter much to tell the truth, as long as you got all the partitions of the same type, either fat32 or ntfs.

 

[ZAnwar]

Won't NTFS be more faster and stable?

 

[j79zlr]

NTFS is actually a little slower than FAT32, plus NTFS requires about 12% overhead on the drive so if you are using 75% for the PF and then another 12% now you are up to 87% usage. NTFS's real advantage is its security features so it is really not necesary. I would and do use FAT32 for my PF partition.

 

[Bretenn]

so is it better set the pagefile to my second hardidsk (same cable)?
i think i will use fat32 for it...

 

[Friend of Bill]

Use FAT32 for quicker read/write. Page file on drive set as slave is ok but if drive was on it's own ide it would be better.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

if drive was on it's own ide it would be better.

...and if it was a RAID 0 configuration it would be even better yet.

It doesn't mean he CAN do it, he may only have 2 IDE channels, one for his cd rom and one for his hdd.

I have a RAID 0 configuration and everything flies...like the wind.