I'm just formatting my flash drive now, what file system should I use? I assume NTFS but I'm not sure
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I've been using Eboostr for a while now. A basic problem I see is the lack of documentation at the moment regarding almost all details of it's use. Even Microsoft's readyboost seem to lack definitive documentation regarding file systems, cache sizes and speeds, etc.
From my personal experience, a flash drive cannot be made to respond well using NTFS, or FAT16.
FAT32 produces far higher read speeds, but I've also seen evidence of rapid deterioration of the drive- succesively lowered read speeds every time the cache is rebuilt.
I'm now testing it on a secondary (slave) internal hard drive partition using NTFS and that's producing the most stable and visible results so far. A problem with building the cache on an NTFS partition seems to be severe fragmentation. On a flash drive, I was not able to defragment it, which is not a problem with the internal drive.
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deviantART: Comment on Eboostr for Increaasing Performance, Any Thoughts? by ~Sixthcrusifix
seems fat32 is the way to go for flash drives