When I installed windows for the first time, it didn't ask me which type of file system I wanted to format my drive in. Now, I clicked on the format button in setup, and I got NTFS, but I heard solid states perform best in exfat. what gives?
When I installed windows for the first time, it didn't ask me which type of file system I wanted to format my drive in. Now, I clicked on the format button in setup, and I got NTFS, but I heard solid states perform best in exfat. what gives?
I understand that Windows must see the drive as "removable" in order to offer exFAT formatting.
If you get that option during install, I am surprised.
Also, I do not beleive there is any benefit for exFAT over NTFS for a hard drive.
The only reason it was released was to allow larger files (>4GB) to be copied to thumb drives and SD (which were FAT32).
NTFS supports any files you will need to have in the next decade, I think.
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