"TEXT 2"="Very much files, mostly with small filesize (big MFT)"
"TEXT 3"="Much files, mostly with normal filesize"
"TEXT 4"="Few files, mostly with huge filesize"
"TEXT 5"="Very Few files, mostly with very huge filesize (small MFT)"
"DESCRIPTION 1"="In Windows NT (with SP6) and above you can control how much space for the MFT (Master File Table) is reserved."
"DESCRIPTION 2"="For each file and folder NTFS uses, an entry is created inside the MFT. This allows NTFS to located the objects very fast."
"DESCRIPTION 3"="However, only a MFT that is in one block is really fast. If you copy many small images to this computer, the normal MFT space is properly to small, so the MFT is continued on a different location on the hard disk."
"DESCRIPTION 4"="This is not a problem because the computer still works, but any request to a file takes much longer because now NTFS needs to seek for two MFT "block" and reads both (for every file access!). In this example, a big MFT would be a good idea so it is keeped in one block."
"DESCRIPTION 5"="On the other hand, if you only have some very huge database files on this computer, a huge MFT is not a good idea since every file request takes longer than needed (the MFT is allways read completely). That's because there are only few files on the disk and the MFT could be small."
"DESCRIPTION 6"="Unfortunately, Microsoft didn't specifies this setting in detail, so the only chance is to play around with this settings and check the performance of the computer after you have changed this setting and rebooted."
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