What does an NTFS format partition mean

We often see on the computer that the partition is NTFS, so what does this NTFS mean?

NTFS is the recommended partition format for Microsoft Windows operating system series Win2000, XP, and Win7. is a new filesystem for solving the early fat (file partition table) and HPFS (high-performance file system), and few people know what it really means, and we think it's the acronym for new Technology file system, which is what most people think.

Here's how to use the file system in NTFS format:

Advantages of NTFS relative to FAT32

1, the use of hard disk more efficient.

The efficiency of NTFS on hard disk is reflected in two aspects:

A, smaller clusters (a file storage unit) than the earlier FAT16 and FAT32, and more granular management to make the hard disk more efficient, that is, the same hard disk space, using the NTFS format to store larger files;

b, the use of compressed storage mechanism, save disk space (above the second picture above you can see "compressed magnetic this drive to save disk space" option), but generally do not recommend that you check, only in the hard disk comparison hours can be considered;

2, data security.

NTFS uses an access control mechanism that has different permissions for different levels of users (such as admin Administrator, Limited User user, foreign visitor guest), and by setting permissions, NTFS ensures data confidentiality (not accessed by other users) and security ( Not to be modified and deleted by other users, this is very useful in the computer and network access control of multiple account settings, which can be used to place other people peeping into your files when FAT32 is unable to do so.

3, support large hard disk and large partitions and large files.

FAT32 file system control over 32G hard disk partitions is already very difficult, and for NTFS, especially based on Win2003 and Win7 NTFS, can easily control 2000G hard disk, while in the FAT32 partition more than 2G of files (such as games, movie , Gho mirroring) can be an error, and the NTFS format resolves the problem, so you download a large game or download the HD movie frequently, and the recommended disk partition is NTFS format.

In addition, NTFS can also span multiple hard drives to control multiple hard disks into a single partition, which is common in enterprise applications, such as one of your servers can hang multiple hard drives and manage the data well.

Disadvantages of NTFS

cannot be identified by the early DOS and Win9x systems, and there will be some confusion with older computers installing dual-system users, but there should be fewer users now using Win98. Individual experts need to use DOS to access the disk, I believe they will solve the problem (loading NTFS support in DOS can solve this problem), so this shortcoming can be almost ignored.

Believe that through the above introduction, if you are a new purchase of the computer will not hesitate to choose the file system NTFS format, and the old machine, especially 256M memory 40G hard disk configuration, but also many will choose FAT32, basically nothing tangled.

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