> 1.    It's been suggested that after a system crash NTFS 
> drives may be 
> reluctant to allow you to access them in a rebuilt system or 
> if transferred to another system.

On the flip side, NTFS is extremely hardy with regard to hard drive damage,
etc... NTFS is very reliable, or has been in my experience. Any competent
disk recovery tech can get your data off the drive in case of a system
failure. There are even Linux based tools that allow the reading of NTFS
drives.


> Thoughts?
> 
> 2.    Data transfer rate to the NTFS drives across the network or 
> between NTFS and FAT32 drives is abysmal. Typically well 
> under 1 MB / second. Transfers between 2 x SIDE NTFS drives 
> seems to be much faster. Network is standard 10/100 UTP and 
> works much faster for FAT32 transfers.

Our main network was, for years, NT servers on NTFS and Win '98 boxes on
FAT32. I never saw any speed problems. On the other hand, we don't copy gobs
of image files.

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James.
 

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