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    NTFS for Removable drives

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by pepclub, Nov 2, 2009.

  1. pepclub

    pepclub Notebook Consultant

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    I see that most of my thumbdrives, memory cards are pre-formatted with FAT32. So will formatting it with NTFS give me any faster performance?
     
    pepclub, Nov 2, 2009
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  2. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    On my portable usb drive i get a preformance boost if using NTFS, but i lose compatability with my PS3, that does not read NTFS formatted stuff.
    If you got Vista / 7 you can also try ExFat.
    Will work on all the newer versions of Windows OS, but you need to download a update for Windows XP.
     
    DEagleson, Nov 2, 2009
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  3. Trottel

    Trottel Notebook Virtuoso

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    Nope. FAT32 is fine for your application.
     
    Trottel, Nov 2, 2009
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  4. BrandonSi

    BrandonSi Notebook Savant

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    Just keep in mind, the max file size for FAT32 is 4GB-1b. If you have large .iso files, or any other single file you may want to move to the drive that is larger than 4GB, you should go with NTFS.
     
    BrandonSi, Nov 2, 2009
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