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USB Flash Drive Comparison Part 2 — FAT32 Vs. NTFS

Posted by timothy on from the get-your-data-past-the-border-guards dept.

Dampeal writes "Ok, a little while back I ran a somewhat large USB Flash Drive Comparison with 21 drives compared, today I got part two of that comparison. I've taken the 8gig and 4 gig drives, nine in total, and formatted them FAT32, NTFS and ExFAT and ran all of the tests over again for a comparison of how the file systems work on the drives." Good news — after some exhaustively graphed testing scenarios, the author comes to a nice conclusion for lazy people, writing "[I]n my opinion the all around best choice is FAT32, or the default for most all USB drives out there today, it seems to give us the best average performance overall."

2 of 198 comments (clear)

  1. Re:NTFS patten? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, I think he meant "Patton". Having Patton on me is the last thing I'd want.

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    This guy's the limit!
  2. Re:Size matters by coolsnowmen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did he run tests with 16GB files?

    ...
    More importantly, he couldn't use a 16GB file, since
    FAT32 doesn't support single files over 4GB.

    And because 4GB drives don't support files over 4GB.