Will using FAT32 provide better pagefile performance than NTFS?

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Published on 2010-03-02T04:55:45Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 3:03 UTC
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Hello, I was discussing with my others personalities, and came up with a conflict. In http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc938440.aspx , says that FAT32 is faster when using smaller volumes.

Ok separate disk, will give more performance than same disk. But did anyone test this?

Scenario 1 : Separate hard disk FAT32 (small volume)
Scenario 2 : Separate hard disk NTFS

which one will win? minimum gain?

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