FAT32 vs NTFS on SSD

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I've been reading that FAT32 is supposed to be faster than NTFS due to less writes that the file system causes, NTFS has journalling and last time access for every file which must slow down things a little bit? Also that would increase wear rate would it not?
 
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Yeah well thats the same for a normal hard disk then. But no one would normally choose FAT32 because of it's limitations such as not supporting files larger than 4Gb. An issue in this world of large files.
 
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If you go with Intel's SSD's they are designed to last for 5 years at a minimum. In practise they should last much longer.

It's going to be one of those cases of 'You get what you pay for'. Just avoid all the current SSD's based on MLC technoligy for now unless it's Intel.
 
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