On the other hand NTFS allows you to set permissions on local files and folders as well.Ĭompression: FAT32 offers no file compression feature whatsoever. This means that they are good in the Network but locally they are vulnerable. Security: In FAT32 you will have to depend on share permissions for security. FAT32 maintains two different copies of the file allocation table and uses a back up mechanism if some damage occurs. So, I'll expand those which require little description.įault Tolerance: NTFS maintains a log of disk changes and in case of power failure or abrupt errors it repairs the files and folders automatically without the user being notified anything. Few of the things here are self explanatory.
