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Similarities Between FAT32 And NTFS

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NFTS vs FAT 32
New Technology File System is a proprietary file system, File Allocation Table 32 is a computer file system architecture. These two are very alike in some ways and very different in others. NTFS is newer and has a lot more storage but FAT32 is has better security and still works even if Windows is opened incorrectly. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast FAT32 and NTFS.
NTFS is a proprietary file system which means it is a file format of a business or person that contains data that is stored according to a certain encoding-scheme, designed by the business to be secret, so that only the company that stored the data can see the data with software that they have developed. NTFS has a max volume size of 264 clusters and the max number of files is 4,294,967,295 files. NTFS is used to store and retrieve files on a hard disk. NTFS offers improvements from FAT and HPFS in performance, extendibility, and security.
FAT32 is an older file system so it isn't as efficient but it has more compatibility with other OS's. It is the oldest of the three file systems available for Windows and most flash drives are formatted with FAT32. FAT32 is used as a data recovery system and …show more content…

Some of the reasons that they are the same is they are both proprietary file systems. This means that they both format files that contain encrypted data so that only the people that encrypted it can see it. They both support Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Server, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. They both have a limit of 255 characters for a file name. They also have many differences including max volume size, max files on volume, max file size, max number of clusters, etc. NTFS has many things that FAT32 doesn't, including alternate streams, compression, encryption, object permissions, disk quotas, sparse files, reparse points, volume mount points, built in security, and

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