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This is what NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT actually mean — and when to use each

Not all drives speak the same language, and these file systems decide who understands what.

What Your USB Drive's Formats Actually Mean (And How To Change Between Them)

A USB drive can support several different types of file formats, depending on your needs. Here's what those formats mean and ...
Ars Technica

NTFS vs Fat32 on laptop

if you're talking about ntfs in 2k or xp then it's a newer fs so it runs better. ntfs is suppost to be faster that fat32 in xp (correct me if i'm wrong)<P>unless you're wanting a 9x os to access the ...
PC World

Choosing the right format for USB flash drives matters. Here’s why

Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...
Ars Technica

Fragmentation, and NTFS vs FAT

I realize that there are tons of past topics about NTFS and fragmentation, but none of them (that I saw) compared the effect on performance of fragmentation on an NTFS partition vs the effect on ...
InfoWorld

Parallels Desktop boots from, reads and writes NTFS and FAT32 partitions

Parallels Desktop can also access a Boot Camp partition as a secondary drive with read and write access to FAT32 and NTFS file systems. If this raises questions in your mind about the potential for ...