PC question

Is there an adverse affect when you create (reasonably) many directories, maybe a 100-200 on an external drive.

Thanks

The only thing I can think of would be that the root, i.e. D:\, may be limited to a certain number, but sub directories should be fine. I am not sure if this is still an issue. WinXP and NTFS may not care.


ByteTheBullet (-:

The fix is in, bring them on.

A drive's a drive, doesn't matter where it is.

Should we assume that the "external" drive is via a USB port?

If so, one gigantic problem that I have experienced is the slowness in doing a defrag. Apparently (and not unreasonably) a defrag involves reading every block of data into the computer (via the USB) and then writing it back to the external drive. Unbelievably slow.

The other concern with any external drive is that you normally have to choose what file structure you want during the initial installation, partitioning and formatting - usually a choice between FAT32 and NTFS. If you plan to ever write a single file of 4.3 GB or more on that drive be sure to format it for NTFS, because the FAT32 system does not support a file size greater than 4.3 GB - that's a real concern when doing massive backups.

Under DOS in the good old days there was a limit on how many entries were allowed in the root - specifically 256. I don't know whether such a limit exists in Windows XP - but I would not think so.