From: Randal Whittle (rwhittle_at_usa.net)
Date: Fri Oct 03 1997 - 11:48:06 EDT
At 04:46 PM 10/2/97 -0600, Dean Cashen wrote:
>Randal Whittle wrote:
>>
>> The key feature here, as far as Partition Magic goes, is that it
lets you
>> effortlessly "convert" (assuming you have the OS support for it) from FAT16
>> to FAT32 and back.
>
>Not only that, but it allows you to split a disk into partitions
>without data loss. This is particularly helpful on FAT16 systems
>because you can split a drive into smaller partitions and gain
>efficiency (space) by making each partition small enough so the
>cluster size can be reduced (example: A drive that's 1 to 2GB in size
Err...I thought that goes without saying. That's the main point of
Partition Magic to begin with!
The rest of this stuff is just icing on the cake.
>> I've had really mixed reaction to this FAT32 stuff. At first, I thought
>> it was great, but I really notice the performance hit it creates. Every
>> machine I've put it on, I have also ended up changing it back to FAT16
>> sooner or later. I figure the disk space is cheap, so I haven't the need
>> to get chintzy with it.
>
>While I've read, and understand that there could be a performance
>ding, I haven't noticed it on the Thinkpad (I use standard PC
>apps, Word and such, along with graphics editors and some
>compilers). I'll bet you're doing more disk-intensive work, is
>that so?
Hell, just loading up Windows 95 is disk-intensive work! ;-)
The machines I've used Fat32 on (and gone back to Fat16 eventually) were
all desktops. I never put Fat 32 on my TP560. In general, laptops are a
fair bit slower--especially in the HD area--than desktops. So it stands to
reason you may not even notice the performance hit on a latptop.
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Randal J. Whittle whittle_at_usc.edu (213) 740-7775
Director, Electronic Commerce Program
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
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