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Originally Posted by sonar732
If you aren't worried about security, go ahead and use FAT32. However, in this day and age, I would use NTFS unless you have some older applications that depend on data stored in a FAT32 system.
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My (perhaps naive) understanding was that I could specify different file systems for each partition. I was only going to use FAT32 for the page file based on a commentary I saw in "partitioning best practices" writeup on the MS website. It said:
Although the version of NTFS in Windows XP has features that make it perform better than earlier versions of NTFS, you can still eek out some performance gains for small volumes by formatting them as FAT32 instead of NTFS. Lack of security from not having pagefile.sys protected by NTFS permissions is not much of a concern since it's an unreadable binary file anyway.
Now granted, this was a commentary dated June 6, 2005. And the paging file in this case was about 4G for an assumed 1G RAM.
What do you think, am I over doing it? Should I just stick to NTFS, or don't even bother with the paging file partition?
I have to read up on the Raid config... Can I even make partitions?