exFAT Format

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Limp Gawd
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Hello All,

The last few days been quite frustrating due to constant power outage, thus losing all attempts at formatting my newly arrived Seagate 1.5TB. The last attempt went OK, but perhaps due to carelessness or hastiness, I formatted it in exFAT, NOT NTFS. What can potentially go wrong with this exFAT?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of exFAT?

I read some and found out that exFAT is targetted the new SSD drives. What will happened if a regular hard drive is formatted in exFAT?

As I know very little about these different format modes, your thoughts are much appreciated.:)

TIA
 
Its a waste, no reason not to use NTFS which is much more readable... almost all systems these days can read NTFS... exFAT you need to install patches to read it. Just a pain in the ass. I think the only real world benefit over fat32 is no more 4GB file size limit.
 
Whenever i've benchmarked flash cards and usb sticks, they always perform 5 to 10 percent faster using fat32 over ntfs. Has anyone tried comparing benchmarks of exfat vs. ntfs for flash?
 
Depends what you are transfering. Fat32 is faster for sustained write speed whereas ntsf handles smaller files much better.
 
Ugh, lots of pointless posts to skim threw. Comeon ocz mods!
 
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