why would speed of ntfs do

[ryker]

running xp-pro-fat32. wifes office comp is the same. she has a medical
program that is about 110 mb. she uses 2 different sandisk for daily
backup, usb-2. Takes about 15 minutes for this, really slow.

Saw this on a search of google, by someone else doing this. I formatted
the sandisk with the ntfs file system, did the backup in about 2 to 3
minutes. Tried several times, result the same. Could not run the
program (Gov. Hippa laws forbid me to see patient info.), but I assume
that all info was there, backed up. (size was the same-and program would
open)

Why would the comp (fat32) backup to this sandisk (now ntfs) that much
faster? I can see faster, but this much faster.

Would it do this for the whole computer?

 

[Ted Zieglar]

FAT32 is, theoretically, faster than NTFS because it has less overhead.
But we're not talking about anything that you could actually notice.

I'm going to guess you're referring to a USB flash drive, since Sandisk
is a brand name, not a product.

It's debatable whether there's any sense in formatting a flash drive
with a journaling file system. In any case, you haven't provided any
details about the backup, so it's anybody's guess.

 

[ryker]

Ted

Was just my assumption, yes it is one of their usb flash drives.

What would you need to know about the backup other than the 100 mb size
as to venture a guess as to why the backup ran so much faster this way?
It was a straight forward copy to the drive.

Bob

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Using what software? How configured? Was anything else running in the
background?

 

[ryker]

selected the "pro-manager" program and all data files in explorer, right
click, copy to drive. normal window services running.