USB Flash Drive Comparison Part 2 — FAT32 Vs. NTFS

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @04:54AM 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."

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No JFFS2? by garbletext · 2009-01-27 05:02 · Score: 3, Insightful

Since interoperability is key in this context, anything besides FAT32 is hopelessly esoteric. So why not test the OSS solution as well?
Re:Great by Z00L00K · 2009-01-27 05:08 · Score: 4, Insightful

What about ext2 and other filesystems then?

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Re:Don't install your OS on FAT32... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-01-27 06:23 · Score: 2, Insightful

Permissions on XP are screwed and hurt more than they help. Being unable to delete/move some files even as Administrator in single user mode is bullshit.