# NTFS to FAT32? **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 28, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ntfs-to-fat32/194414 "2007-12-28T17:08:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![fshowcars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fshowcars/32/5937_2.png) [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 9:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ntfs-to-fat32/194414/14 "2008-01-02T09:19:46Z")
> [@Past 2 nights...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/past-2-nights/33897/229): > > NTFS is a Microsoft trade secret and you have to license it through their Intellectual Property Licensing program to redistribute it on third-party hardware. Since PS3 is competing directly with their hardware platform, and NTFS accesses files faster than FAT32, it’s in their best interests not to license it out. > > If I had a PS3, I’d put Ubuntu on it, just for shits and giggles. That’s just my :blanyer: . > > But in any case, I’m off topic. 250GB PS3 ftw. huh? what the fuck? anyway… file systems are file systems… i’m confused why permissions and encryption would be a benefit to a ‘dumb’ gaming console, but whatever… why is the assumption that either of these systems runs FAT32 or NTFS? i can’t imagine why anyone woudl think that? anyway… the reason it’s formatted in FAT is because it’s a chunk of disk used to save data… its’ cross platform and simplistic… it’s a non journaling system used due to it’s ease of sharing the same disk across platforms. whatever… what does ubuntu have to do with anything? kernals are all packaged to read ntfs so it’s a moot point… writing ability from the kernal for ntfs is still not going to happen… so wtf does it matter? you’d think you people are doing stress testing and iop counts for your game console disk drives 🤣 --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ntfs-to-fat32/194414)._