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Most of us may rarely pay attention to the type of flash file system used by us, whether it's NTFS, FAT32 or FAT. To find out the file system used, right-click flash in Windows Explorer and select Properties. There looks File System type is used.But when we try to format through Windows Explorer, maybe there is no menu NTFS, the only FAT32 and FAT. How to format NTFS and what's the difference with FAT32 and FAT?
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Why NTFS?NTFS is the format of the latest Windows system files after FAT32, and has several advantages such as the ability to store additional information about a file / folder (metadata), security features, data compression, better structure and others.In addition, NTFS can be used to format the larger size, only 2 GB for FAT, FAT32 8 TB (8,000 GB), while NTFS can be up to 16 EB (16 million TB). Nevertheless, there is still NTFS shortcomings, such as not readable on the Win9x and the process of reading and writing to disk more frequently.Because each file / folder store more information (metadata), then the process of reading and writing each file / folder will more often than FAT32 or FAT type, so for the flash, influence life (endurance). Given flash memory have limited literacy. (Article about keeping the flash to be more durable can be read here: Characteristics and tips to keep more durable flash)Enabling NTFS format in Windows ExplorerWe can format the USB stick with NTFS with the help of the HP USB Format Tools. But the actual Windows Explorer can do it. To enable it to follow the following steps
1. Open System Properties by right-click My Computer> Properties (or Break key Win Keyboard)
2. Open the Hardware tab and then click the Device Manager button
3. Select Disk Drive and select the flash you want in the format with NTFS, right click, select Properties.
4. Once open select the Policies tab
5. Select Optimize for performance and click OK
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6. After that, try right-clicking the flash drive in Windows Explorer and select the Format menu, then there should have appeared NTFS File System.
Noteworthy is that when this option is enabled, each pulled the flash should always be through the Safety Remove Hardware. If the option is "Optimize for quick removal" is actually the flash can be directly removed, without the Safety Remove HardwareTest between NTFS, FAT32 and FATI have tried multiple comparisons (especially the process of copying the data) with different type, and the results are as follows:
* Copy the 11 files (the size of each about 170 MB) total about 1.8 GB
NTFS 04:44 (4 minutes 46 seconds)
FAT32 05:09 (5 minutes 9 seconds)
FAT 04:46 (4 minutes 46 seconds)
* Copy 1297 files (size between 1 KB to 23 KB) with a total of 8.23 MB
NTFS 29 seconds
FAT32 56 seconds
FAT 58 seconds
* Capacity after the format
NTFS 2,038,044,672 bytes Used space 12,937,216 bytes (12.3 MB)
FAT32 2,046,959,616 bytes 4096 bytes Used space (4:00 KB)
FAT 2,050,686,976 bytes Used Space 0 bytesVisible copying data with NTFS, relatively quickly, but after the format size is slightly smaller because it was needed additional space for larger information files / folders (metadata). If flash is often used for reading and writing process and not so require NTFS features, such as data security, then select the type FAT32 might be better.InshaAllah next article will discuss the use NTFS to protect Flahsdisk type of virus that would create, delete or modify the Autorun.inf with a simple program that I created "Super Autorun".
May Help ..! !
fat32-file-system
Why NTFS?NTFS is the format of the latest Windows system files after FAT32, and has several advantages such as the ability to store additional information about a file / folder (metadata), security features, data compression, better structure and others.In addition, NTFS can be used to format the larger size, only 2 GB for FAT, FAT32 8 TB (8,000 GB), while NTFS can be up to 16 EB (16 million TB). Nevertheless, there is still NTFS shortcomings, such as not readable on the Win9x and the process of reading and writing to disk more frequently.Because each file / folder store more information (metadata), then the process of reading and writing each file / folder will more often than FAT32 or FAT type, so for the flash, influence life (endurance). Given flash memory have limited literacy. (Article about keeping the flash to be more durable can be read here: Characteristics and tips to keep more durable flash)Enabling NTFS format in Windows ExplorerWe can format the USB stick with NTFS with the help of the HP USB Format Tools. But the actual Windows Explorer can do it. To enable it to follow the following steps
1. Open System Properties by right-click My Computer> Properties (or Break key Win Keyboard)
2. Open the Hardware tab and then click the Device Manager button
3. Select Disk Drive and select the flash you want in the format with NTFS, right click, select Properties.
4. Once open select the Policies tab
5. Select Optimize for performance and click OK
usb-device-properties
6. After that, try right-clicking the flash drive in Windows Explorer and select the Format menu, then there should have appeared NTFS File System.
Noteworthy is that when this option is enabled, each pulled the flash should always be through the Safety Remove Hardware. If the option is "Optimize for quick removal" is actually the flash can be directly removed, without the Safety Remove HardwareTest between NTFS, FAT32 and FATI have tried multiple comparisons (especially the process of copying the data) with different type, and the results are as follows:
* Copy the 11 files (the size of each about 170 MB) total about 1.8 GB
NTFS 04:44 (4 minutes 46 seconds)
FAT32 05:09 (5 minutes 9 seconds)
FAT 04:46 (4 minutes 46 seconds)
* Copy 1297 files (size between 1 KB to 23 KB) with a total of 8.23 MB
NTFS 29 seconds
FAT32 56 seconds
FAT 58 seconds
* Capacity after the format
NTFS 2,038,044,672 bytes Used space 12,937,216 bytes (12.3 MB)
FAT32 2,046,959,616 bytes 4096 bytes Used space (4:00 KB)
FAT 2,050,686,976 bytes Used Space 0 bytesVisible copying data with NTFS, relatively quickly, but after the format size is slightly smaller because it was needed additional space for larger information files / folders (metadata). If flash is often used for reading and writing process and not so require NTFS features, such as data security, then select the type FAT32 might be better.InshaAllah next article will discuss the use NTFS to protect Flahsdisk type of virus that would create, delete or modify the Autorun.inf with a simple program that I created "Super Autorun".
May Help ..! !
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