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FAT32 is an evolutionary improvement on FAT16 and FAT12 used in the early days of personal computing; NTFS is an entirely new approach to file management. FAT32 uses 32 bits per entry in the file allocation table (FAT), though only 28 bits are actually used. It is efficient for drives up to 16GB in size, as up to that level it uses 8Kb clusters. Above that size it switches to 16Kb clusters, at which point the file overhead becomes less efficient than NTFS. It also lacks all of the file security features available in NTFS.

NTFS is based on a database called the Master File Table (MFT) and includes file-level security options not previously available. Unlike FATxx, which writes the FAT in the first sector of the drive, NTFS keeps the MFT on the last sector and, IIRC, keeps a spare copy in the middle of the drive. NTFS is also crash resistant, as disk writes are logged, and if the system crashes incomplete writes are reconstructed from the log and rewritten. While it's still not recommended, shutting down a system with the power switch will rarely cause a data loss using NTFS. The newer system also adds file security capability, and automatic file encryption/decrytion as an option.

All in all, if you have logical drives bigger than 16 GB, NTFS is the recommended choice.

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