File system question

speedyink

speedyink

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Maybe a dumb question, but I'm curious

Is there any benefit to formatting a 32gb thumb drive as ntfs over FAT32? Besides a 4gb file size barrier removed?
 
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I don't think so. I once tried that and I keep getting problem ejecting it. The only benefit using ntfs is you can compress the files in it. But that not a big deal for me. If you using vista, for better choice format the thumbdrive with exFAT filesystem.
 
Ejecting? What OS do you use, I just yank it out, lol. So far I've had no issues with NTFS on this thing.

exfat, huh? Well, is there any benefit to exfat over NTFS? It sounds interesting, but I don't like how proprietary it sounds. I've already used it on one machine with XP, it would be super lame to do that again and find out I need to download a hotfix (which is impossible in the cases it's carrying an internet driver, like last night...)
 
You know that NTFS is meant for harddisk. Not suitable for flash drive. Microsoft also mention that. Ntfs use large overhead and the filesystem is comlplex while exFat use small overhead and the filesystem is simple. exFat also have overcome 4GB files tranfers limit over fat32. For more information, google exfat.
 
Thanks. I'd rather get a summarized answer than read through pages of wikipedia.

Whats the best Allocation unit size to use?

And dont tell me to google it, I already did. I got smaller is better? They were talking about a 2gb stick..
 
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