FAT32 vs exFAT vs NTFS - Windows File Systems

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This is an animated video explaining the different Microsoft Windows file systems such as: FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS

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I'm sorry, but "precise and accurate" is wrong on NTFS file system. NTFS came along with the Windows NT 3.1 system much, much earlier the Windows XP. Please don't mislead people. Regards.

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​@@grzegorzjozwenko4188 The current version of NTFS that is still in use today was introduced with XP

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Amazing! thank you. Can you please make a similar video about EXT4, BTRFS, ZFS etc?

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Also APFS

[@danielho5635]

It's simple: For linux root filesystems, the major distros only support ext4, Btrfs and XFS with ext4 and Btrfs being favored. ZFS is the best for large data, but has problems because it is not widely supported by all distros. Btrfs is the 2nd best for large data if you can't use ZFS. XFS is good for smaller setups if you can put the log file on a separate SSD. I personally use ext4 for root w/ speedup fstab options and NILFS2 for /home because of its continuous snapshots.

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There's another uncommon file system for Windows is ReFS. I've heard once before

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@@justassimple8328 That is an “improved” version of NTFS, used mostly in Windows Server. There is online available info if you want to learn more about it

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[@MegaGeorge1948]

One more good feature in NTFS is Increased reliability. NTFS uses its log file and checkpoint information to restore the consistency of the file system when the computer is restarted after a system failure. After a bad-sector error, NTFS dynamically remaps the cluster that contains the bad sector, and allocates a new cluster for the data. It also marks the original cluster as bad, and no longer uses the old cluster. For example, after a server crash, NTFS can recover data by replaying its log files. NTFS continuously monitors and corrects transient corruption issues in the background without taking the volume offline. This feature is known as self-healing NTFS, which was introduced in Windows Server 2008. (source: Microsoft)

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One thing you should've mentioned is, exFAT is by far the best for portable drives. It doesn't have the file size limitations of FAT32, It's supported by 99% of devices made in the last 10+ years, and most importantly for portable drives is it does NOT require properly ejecting the disk before removal! I can't tell you how many times I've corrupted the files on a flash drive or USB hdd because it was using FAT32 or NTFS and I forgot to properly eject it before unplugging it.

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Awesome videos as always!!! I wish you could do a video on the EFS so people can learn how to lock an individual file and folder encase they don't want to use FDE for the whole drive. Thanks.

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Dude i use ntfs since 2015 when pc became my main platform to work-until 2020, and gaming at nowtime. To me after trying another protocols, i notice many different things, stability specifically but another more things that i considered improvements, like constantly system speed, much less stuttering when i gaming, system response at various situations when im editing music files and so on. May be placebo effect in my case but it's what i noticed. Thanks and great video, subscription✔️

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Very Educational indeed Buddy, now I know why I couldn't back up my OUTLOOK file (23 Gb) to my memory stick. I reformated to exFAT and was able to copy this file sized 23 Gb, Thanks a lot Buddy , you learn something every day on this channel 🙂

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FAT32 is still in use to this day for compatibility with computers using EFI firmware instead of the traditional classic BIOS. Normally it's really small enough just for the EFI boot file(s), as well as a few other files the loaded boot manager in particular might need in order to load an OS on the much larger non-FAT partition (whether it's formatted as NTFS or Ext4) that contains the necessary files to complete the booting process.

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Keep in mind that when using NTFS, the previous version option is only available if there is a restore point on the system.

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Thanks for another good video. I would have added that NTFS was the file system introduced for Windows NT back then. NT and consumer Windows merged around the time XP was released and NTFS became the file system used by all windows versions.

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Please make a video comparing these with ReFS next!! I would love to see what improvements ReFS has made over NTFS (even though it's not mainstream yet lol)

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this is exactly the information that i needed 👌 i bought Two 2TB usb flashdrive's i guess i should leave it as it is (exFAT) for storage.

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As a special feature, NTFS also offers built in compression and file indexing

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He should have put them in the video.

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