[CentOS] NTFS is more resilient than ext3? Or is it hardware issue?

[John Doe]

From: Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri at arinet.org>

> Back long time ago, we have  an old file MS W2K (NTFS) server where due
> no admin was available to manage  it, the server would get power off
> when the office closed, and auto power on  again in the morning. That
> thing happened for years and it was fine  ^^
> Recently, I setup a Centos 5.5 file server with ext3 and got  power
> blackout twice and I notice the filesystem got corrupted and also  bad
> sectors.
> Is it just pure random luck, software or hardware  issue?
> What's your experience?

I am pretty sure bad sectors = corruption.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_sector

JD