>It's a collection of pictures from one of my suppliers. In our own system, we have these pictures divided into 100 subdirectories, for faster access. But for reference, I also keep the original files in their own subdirectory.
I understand that NTFS uses indexes on its directories. In my own informal tests, access is quite fast, even if there are many files in a directory.
Do you think that there is still a significant speed difference in this case? Or do you want to make sure that the system also works decently on FAT?
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