NTFS or Fat 32 for DVD burning

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I was wondering which partition type is faster and better for DVD
burning files. Currently I have 2 seperate hard drives in my system
and when I burn from the secondary drive which is fat 32 it burns
faster and better while when I burn from the ntfs partion drive it
goes much slower and gets quite alot of bad burns. I was just curious
if there is a difference or if maybe their could be problems with my
ntfs drive.
 
I was wondering which partition type is faster and better for DVD
burning files. Currently I have 2 seperate hard drives in my system
and when I burn from the secondary drive which is fat 32 it burns
faster and better while when I burn from the ntfs partion drive it
goes much slower and gets quite alot of bad burns. I was just curious
if there is a difference or if maybe their could be problems with my
ntfs drive.
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If your burner is on the same IDE channel as your NTFS drive (e.g., your
HD is primary and your burner is secondary on the same IDE cable), you
will see a big performance hit during a burn since both devices are
trying to use the same IDE channel. You should really have the burner
as primary on its own IDE channel, and put the two hard drives on the
same IDE channel.
 
if this is a newer system it won't matter where or how you set it up.
However if the drive is not up to par, this will cause burn errors. run a
diagnostics on the drive from the manufacturer's Web Page.
 
I was wondering which partition type is faster and better for DVD
burning files. Currently I have 2 seperate hard drives in my system
and when I burn from the secondary drive which is fat 32 it burns
faster and better while when I burn from the ntfs partion drive it
goes much slower and gets quite alot of bad burns. I was just curious
if there is a difference or if maybe their could be problems with my
ntfs drive.
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If you want to burn files or images bigger than 4GB, use NTFS.

The drive you have with NTFS may not be fast enough and/or on the same
channel as the dvd burner.

Stephen
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I was wondering which partition type is faster and better for DVD
burning files. Currently I have 2 seperate hard drives in my system
and when I burn from the secondary drive which is fat 32 it burns
faster and better while when I burn from the ntfs partion drive it
goes much slower and gets quite alot of bad burns. I was just curious
if there is a difference or if maybe their could be problems with my
ntfs drive.
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It depends on more than just the FS but IMO NTFS would be faster as it
fragments less. That will not help burn time but will help write time.
Also if this is a movie defrag befor you burn. I have had bad audio sync
due to a fragmented drive befor.
 
I was wondering which partition type is faster and better for DVD
burning files. Currently I have 2 seperate hard drives in my system
and when I burn from the secondary drive which is fat 32 it burns
faster and better while when I burn from the ntfs partion drive it
goes much slower and gets quite alot of bad burns. I was just curious
if there is a difference or if maybe their could be problems with my
ntfs drive.
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Well seeing as FAT32 has a maximum filesize of 4GB, NTFS.
 
Conor said:
Well seeing as FAT32 has a maximum filesize of 4GB, NTFS.
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That would matter if you're working with whole DVD image files but the
largest VOB size is 1 gig anyway so FAT32 will work fine under normal
circumstances.
 
I was wondering which partition type is faster and better for DVD
burning files. Currently I have 2 seperate hard drives in my system
and when I burn from the secondary drive which is fat 32 it burns
faster and better while when I burn from the ntfs partion drive it
goes much slower and gets quite alot of bad burns. I was just curious
if there is a difference or if maybe their could be problems with my
ntfs drive.
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Odds are you have the DVD burner on the same IDE channel as the hard drive
you perceive as slower because IDE can talk to only one device at a time so
the two are sharing the same bandwidth.

IDE can read from one channel and write to the other at the same time,
however, so that pair is faster.

It's where the drives and DVD burner are electrically located (which IDE
channels) and not the file system itself that is the primary speed factor
along with which drive(s) is/are the system, app, and swap drive since it
has to handle system/app/swap requests simultaneously with the DVD files.
 
David said:
That would matter if you're working with whole DVD image files but the
largest VOB size is 1 gig anyway so FAT32 will work fine under normal
circumstances.
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I work with 4+ GB .iso files quite commonly. Go NTFS.

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Odds are you have the DVD burner on the same IDE channel as the hard drive
you perceive as slower because IDE can talk to only one device at a time so
the two are sharing the same bandwidth.

IDE can read from one channel and write to the other at the same time,
however, so that pair is faster.

It's where the drives and DVD burner are electrically located (which IDE
channels) and not the file system itself that is the primary speed factor
along with which drive(s) is/are the system, app, and swap drive since it
has to handle system/app/swap requests simultaneously with the DVD files.
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As above :D
 
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