Fat32 Vs Ntfs

[mith]

i was just wondering .....windows ..they say to use NTFS because is more secure.....so y is the mac os formatted as FAT32 if NTFS is more secure.

 

[iMeowbot]

The native Mac OS format is HFS+, which is roughly comparable in features to NTFS. FAT disks can also be read and written, but that's intended for exchange between operating systems.

 

[mkrishnan]

If you want to know more about these filesystems, we have a guide you can check out:

http://guides.macrumors.com/Drives_and_Filesystems

And also at the end there's a link to an excellent Wikipedia article.

 

[mith]

thx

thx alot ....to you both

 

[SiliconAddict]

The biggest deal about NTFS isn't security, even though that is a large part of it. Its the fact that its a journaled file system and that there is a redundancy in the file system itself that makes it very fault tolerant. IMHO use FAT32 only if you absolutely have to. I currently use macdrive in my Windows XP partition to read the OS X partition and leave all my data files on the OS X side of things while still befittingly from NTFS in Windows.
I'm really kind of sad that Apple hasn't taken NTFS support beyond the ability to read. And I hope that the ability to write will show up in Leopard as a last minute feature.

 

[mkrishnan]

I'm really kind of sad that Apple hasn't taken NTFS support beyond the ability to read. And I hope that the ability to write will show up in Leopard as a last minute feature.

Yes...now that Linux is finally making headway in write NTFS support, I hope so also....