Ntfs?

[JimmyG]

What the heck is NTFS anyway?

[It_The_Cow]

NT Filing System. It's a form of formatting that's optimized for OS's that use the NT kernel (NT, 2000, XP). If offers more security features and better optimization of your files. If you do a search on google, you'll probably find a more in-depth explanation. I personally didn't see a major difference

[dugans]

New Technology File System- I believe it was released with NT 3.51 first.

Native support for compression, security, and less likely to have data corruption errors.

[joey_rjm5]

Don forget you don't have to run scandisk after a hard shutdown!:D

[Yodums]

What they said.

More secruity, more optimization.

[JimmyG]

OK, from what you say, NTFS does it's own optimizing. I use an NT4 machine at work (DELL Optiplex GX110). Whenever I do anything on it the hard drive churns and churns. It is anything but fast loading files...ugh!

If NTFS optimizes itself, it must do a sh...y job of it!

[pcgirl]

Originally posted by JimmyG
OK, from what you say, NTFS does it's own optimizing. I use an NT4 machine at work (DELL Optiplex GX110). Whenever I do anything on it the hard drive churns and churns. It is anything but fast loading files...ugh!

If NTFS optimizes itself, it must do a sh...y job of it!

Chances are there is some other problem that is slowing your pc down. I have a hard time believing that is related to NTFS, since it really does do a much better job at optimizing files.

[JimmyG]

There are hundreds of machines running NT4 at work. They all churn the hard drive the same way.