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NTFS or exFAT?
Lupin:
--- Quote from: enginarc on February 14, 2010, 04:47:54 PM ---If you are connecting the external hdd via a USB cable, make sure you use the "Safely Remove USB device" feature of windows before physical removal.
Or it might corrupt the data on the hdd.
"{Delayed Write Failed}" error message when you unplug a USB 2.0 storage device => http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818788/
--- End quote ---
Windows optimizes external storage devices for safe removal and not for performance by default. The write delays happen when windows caches the data and writes them to the drive only upon unmounting. By default, windows will write the data immediately to the disc.
You'll get that message only if you disconnect the drive while windows is still writing on it.
It's good practice to use the "safely remove usb device" anyways so this shouldn't be a problem.
blubart:
--- Quote from: enginarc on February 14, 2010, 04:47:54 PM ---If you are connecting the external hdd via a USB cable, make sure you use the "Safely Remove USB device" feature of windows before physical removal.
Or it might corrupt the data on the hdd.
"{Delayed Write Failed}" error message when you unplug a USB 2.0 storage device => http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818788/
--- End quote ---
this problem is related to Windows 2000 and is to my knowledge a non-issue in Vista.
going with another cluster size than the default one doesn't yield any noticeable benefit and might haunt you later. just don't change it.
K7IA:
It says XP and 2000 in APPLIES TO section of the knowledge base article, so yes it seems to be solved in Vista+
A quote from CAUSE section of the same article.
--- Quote ---This issue may occur if you do not stop the USB 2.0 storage device by using the Unplug or Eject Hardware feature before you unplug the device from your computer. If you do not stop the device before you unplug it from your computer, some files and folders that are cached by the file system and that are used to improve performance may be damaged.
When you stop a device before you unplug it, the cached information is flushed, and any pending input/output operations can finish correctly.
--- End quote ---
So just be mindful of it and use "safely remove usb device" when using on XP.
That should do the trick.
Proin Drakenzol:
exFAT was put into Vista and 7 only because NTFS rapes the ever living fuck out of Solid State Drives.
If it's not an SSD or flashdrive use NTFS.
K7IA:
--- Quote from: Proin Drakenzol on February 14, 2010, 06:31:16 PM ---exFAT was put into Vista and 7 only because NTFS rapes the ever living fuck out of Solid State Drives.
If it's not an SSD or flashdrive use NTFS.
--- End quote ---
One serious reason to buy an SSD would be to install the operating system on it and anything other than NTFS for windows would probably not be meaningful. Are you certain?
Is it something to do with TRIM support?
[edit] now that I think of it, you should not be able to install windows on a non-NTFS volume
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