As you've noted in your question, exFAT defaults to 256KB, but NTFS defaults to 4KB for volumes larger than 2 GB. Apr 4, 2017 · Situation: I need a filesystem on thumbdrives that can be used across Windows and Linux. So if you use the drive only from Windows PCs and reliability and data integrity are important, such as for archival or backup purposes, NTFS should be used over exFAT. exFAT, easy support for other operating systems doesn't seem to be a concern. Because allocation of storage must occur in whole clusters, a file that is not a multiple of the cluster size will result in wasted space on the storage device. Some of NTFS features are unwanted on an external drive, for example support for permissions. It's in most ways inferior to Nov 28, 2016 · I would like to have here a good discussion for using exFAT vs NTFS on mac. So I wonder what exactly do you plan to gain from formatting that drive with exFAT. We live in a 'windows' world, so cross-platform compatibility for our usb flash disks and hard disk, is essential. .

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