NTFS3 Thoughts

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mistfire
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NTFS3 Thoughts

Post by mistfire »

Since I switched from NTFS-3G to NTFS3. For me, the performance was really good. It reads NTFS partition easily and write files faster than NTFS-3G

Suddenly I hit an unexpected event. I need to move files from one NTFS partition to other NTFS partition because my spare laptop windows was failed so I need to backup. I used my QuickPup64 to transfer those files. Since QuickPup64 used NTFS3 by default. It can be used as benchmark test to see how NTFS3 performed well. I transferred 116Gb of files to other NTFS partition (but same hard drive). Surprisingly it took 30-40mins to transfer such huge files under NTFS3 with zero or less than 10% cpu usage.

What are your thoughts about using NTFS3 driver?

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Re: NTFS3 Thoughts

Post by ozsouth »

@mistfire - I've always been a bit nervous about new drivers, so have stuck with ntfs-3g for now,
as it 'just works' & I feel my data is safe. I accept that the slower transfers are the trade-off.
I am using ntfs partitions a lot more, as my Chromebook (which I mainly use now) reads, but
doesn't write to ext partitions. I intend to revisit ntfs3 later this year.

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