Fat32 -> NTFS - highly debating

[CoffeeFiend]

If you have a stopwatch you might do the same exact operation under both file systems to obtain potentially useful info for other members.

Well, it's not THAT simple. If the partition is on the same disk, same partition (just formatted in different ways), clean/with no fragmentation, and the same background processes and such, all running on the same machine (of course)... You can do some benchmarking, but you have to be careful with your setup for those to be truly meaningful.

Anyhow. I've done hundreds of hours' worth of analog capturing on NTFS partitions, without even a card that does hardware MPEG2 encoding, on lowly P4 class 1.x GHz boxes (AMD ones too, without SSE2 or anything fancy), and had 0 issues over the years.

Anyhow. I forgot to mention in my previous post. With Vista (and Win 2008) now we get self-healing NTFS It can be managed with the fsutil cmd line util. Yay for extra reliability.