Advantages And Disadvantages Of Ntfs

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NTFS
NTFS is a file system that is used to store and access the data in the hard disk on the Windows Operating System. NTFS stands for New Technology file system. It is the newer version than FAT file system. NTFS organizes the files in a directory. In NTFS there is no table like there is in Fat and HFS. NTFS file system supports only for the windows operating system. NTFS was introduced along with the new Windows NT OS. NTFS support file size up to 16 TB. It is customizable file system.

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NTFS file system is popular file system used in most of the windows operating system. It stores the data file into a directories and the directories are hold in a master file table. It helps in the perfect management of the files. The
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• NTFS is better for security.
• NTFS offers reliability on the bad sectors of the drive. It decreases the chance of loss of the file from the drive.
• Files can be encrypted for single user.
• It can auto – repair the fault tolerance.
• Security can be given through locally and through
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Major Challenge
HFS file system is not supported by the newer version of the Mac OS. This may bring the stop in the HFS file system.

Future Change
HFS are not used in the current apply operating system because of its limitation. Apple has created the advance version of HFS known as HFS+. It was created to address the inefficient allocation of disk space and to add more improvement than HFS.

UNIX Ext4
UNIX Ext4 is a file system used in LINUX OS. Its stands for Fourth Extended File System. It is an upgrade of ext3. It was created to fix the limitation of ext3. It uses the extent block for allocation of files. UNIX ext4 uses delayed allocation. For instance, when we first write the file using ext4, it does not decide where on disk it will actually go. It waits until the last minutes and then it figures out where on disk it actually goes. This give information about the files like how big the file is.
In LINUX, folders are referred to as directories. It is mostly used file system for LINUX. UNIX Ext4 supports 1 EB file system size.

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