NTFS - Hard drive minimums

[Leopold Dilg]

Hi, I was talking to a friend about getting a 36.7GB
Western Digital Raptor 10k RPM hard drive and he told me;

"Windows XP reccomends at least a 40GB hard drive to
use the NTFS file system rather then FAT32 file system."

I have looked and looked both on the MS site and others
and I can't find anything that comes close to addressing
this.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Leo

[Jim Macklin]

It is an urban legend, 20 GB is more than enough.

Most people want 80-250 GB.

Depends on what you're doing and what types of files and
their sizes.


--
The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.


"Leopold Dilg" > wrote
in message ...
| Hi, I was talking to a friend about getting a 36.7GB
| Western Digital Raptor 10k RPM hard drive and he told me;
|
| "Windows XP reccomends at least a 40GB hard drive to
| use the NTFS file system rather then FAT32 file system."
|
| I have looked and looked both on the MS site and others
| and I can't find anything that comes close to addressing
| this.
|
| Any ideas?
|
| Thanks!
|
| Leo

[John R Weiss]

"Leopold Dilg" > wrote...
> Hi, I was talking to a friend about getting a 36.7GB
> Western Digital Raptor 10k RPM hard drive and he told me;
>
> "Windows XP reccomends at least a 40GB hard drive to
> use the NTFS file system rather then FAT32 file system."

Hmmm...

Back in the days when NT4 was new and a 384 MB HD was big, they said
anything over 512 MB should be NTFS for performance, and any HD should be
NTFS for security.

[S.Heenan]

Leopold Dilg wrote:
> Hi, I was talking to a friend about getting a 36.7GB
> Western Digital Raptor 10k RPM hard drive and he told me;
>
> "Windows XP reccomends at least a 40GB hard drive to
> use the NTFS file system rather then FAT32 file system."

Nice hard drive, as is the 74GB version. Go for it. Windows XP will install
on any drive over 4GB in size. Use NTFS unless you need to multi-boot.