Suggestions for SATAII Hard drives

On Wed, 14 May 2008 17:04:25 +0100, abit.user
<abit.user@privacy.invalid.com> wrote:


>My general advice would be to always try to use NTFS since it's
>a far better file system than FAT32 ... more robust, faster,
>with additional features and can recognise larger partitions.

Lacks a bit of accuracy. ;-)

FAT32 is marginally faster than NTFS. Not enough to write home about,
but it is faster.

I'm running a single partition 500GB FAT32 drive. I *think* FAT32
tops out at 2TB but I'm not 100% on that. Windoze XP will only format
a 32 GB FAT32 partitions, but that's a MS limitation. When 2TB
becomes a partition size limitation for the average home user, then we
can revisit this. ;-)

Don't know about the "robust" thingy. NTFS has more features, but if
you mean by "robust" that it's more stable, then I'm not convinced.
Complexity usually brings fragility. If you mean by "robust" that it
has more features, then I'll give you that, but the features it
provides (compression, security, encryption, etc.) aren't really
important to the average Joe.

On Mon, 12 May 2008 14:15:29 +0100, "Seeker" <alec@thefrosts.f2s.com>
wrote:

>
>"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:482799F9.7457AF95@hotmail.com...
>>
>>
>> Beryl wrote:
>>
>>> Seeker wrote:
>>>
>>> > Sata drives come in 2 speeds
>>> > SATA 1.5Gbps data transfer rate.
>>> > SATA 3Gbps data transfer rate
>>> > I was looking for a 500 to 750 GB drive running at 3 GBs
>>> > I was planning on Partioning it in Win XP and formatting it in WinME
>>> > format.
>>>
>>> Your partitions were probably too big for the ME utility to format.
>>>
>>> Maybe Samsung's disk manager will do exactly what you want.
>>> http://www.samsung.com/global/busine...skManager.html
>>>
>>> Looks like you'll have to select Windows ME/98/95 OSR2 to get WinME
>>> (FAT32) format if that's what you want, and then it might complain that
>>> ME/98/95 don't support large hard drives.
>>
>> Maybe he needs NTFS partitions ?
>>
>> In any event 'seeker' seems unwilling to provide the full info, so it's
>> difficult to help
>> him.
>>
>> Graham
>>
>>
>
>Sorry I forget to mention.
>This will be my second hard drive.
>As my existing WinXP system disk is FAT32 I have to format this FAT32 too.
>Also I need FAT32 for access over the network.
>

And I forgot to mention that Ranish Partition Manager will format any
size drive to FAT32.