exFAT or NTFS?

Shadows1990 · 4 Feb 2008 at 21:20

I was wondering if it was worth converting my External Hard Drive into exFAT, and what would be the advantages?

Also, the same question for a 8GB Flash Drive.

Both will be used on Windows-based PCs

Thanks

smsmasters · 4 Feb 2008 at 22:22

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa914353.aspx

NTFS is best for large hard drives.

Stelly · 4 Feb 2008 at 23:26

NTFS definately

Stelly

MikeHunt79 · 5 Feb 2008 at 00:53

What the difference between exFAT and FAT32?

Shadows1990 · 6 Feb 2008 at 20:18

Difference between exFAT and FAT32

features of exFAT, quoted from Wikipedia:

* theoretical file size limit of 264 bytes (16 Exabytes), limit lifted from 232 bytes (4 Gigabytes)
* cluster size of up to 2255 bytes, implementation limit of 32MB
* free space allocation performance improved due to introduction of a free space bitmap
* support for more than 1000 files in a single directory
* support for access control lists
* support for Transaction-Safe FAT File System (TFAT) (optionally WinCE activated function)

MikeHunt79 · 6 Feb 2008 at 21:38

^ Thanks and claimed.

I'm guessing things like digital camera and mp3 players are do support exFAT? Otherwise how would something make the full use of a 6gb microSD card?