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Contacts
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Operating System
NTFS5
NTFS
Windows 2000
Windows NT
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows 2003
Windows XP
Server
Windows 2003
Windows 2008
Server
Windows Vista
Windows
Windows 7
2008Windows Vista
exFAT
FAT32
FAT16
Windows CE 6.0
Windows 98
Microsoft Windows
Windows 7
Windows ME
WinXP+KB955704
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows 2003
Server
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 7
Limitations
264 clusters minus
1 cluster
1 cluster
Max Files on
4,294,967,295
4,294,967,295
Volume
(232-1)
(232-1)
264 bytes
244 bytes
(16 ExaBytes)
(16 TeraBytes)
minus 1KB
minus 64KB
Max Clusters
Number
1 cluster
1 cluster
Up to 255
Up to 255
for some OS
Nearly Unlimited
4194304
65536
16EB
4294967295
4177918
65520
Up to 255
Up to 255
Extended - up to
128PB
Standard - 8.3
255
File System Features
Unicode File
Unicode Character
Unicode Character
Unicode Character
System Character
System Character
Names
Set
Set
Set
Set
Set
No
Boot Sector
Sectors 0 to 11
Location
Sectors
Sectors
Copy in 12 to 23
Copy in Sector #6
Standard and
Standard and
Custom
Custom
Standard Set
Standard Set
Standard Set
Alternate Streams
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Compression
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Encryption
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
System Records
Mirror
File Attributes
Object
Permissions
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Disk Quotas
Yes
No
No
No
No
Sparse Files
Yes
No
No
No
No
Reparse Points
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Volume Mount
Points
Overall Performance
Built-In Security
Yes
Yes
Recoverability
Performance
Yes
Yes if TFAT
Yes
activated
Low on small
Low on small
High on small
Highest on small
volumes High on
volumes High on
volumes Low on
volumes Low on
Large
Large
large
large
Trust Rating
Max
Max
Max
Average
Minimal on large
93%
Max
Max
Yes if TFAT
Minimal
Disk Space
Economy
Fault Tolerance
High
volumes
ntfs.com
Average
activated
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