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Question

Is it bad to change the file system on a new Flashdrive?

Sep 17, 2015 5:19PM PDT

I just got a brand new 64Bit USB 3.0 flashdrive and its in an exFAT file system format but I want an NTFS format because I've never had issues with them before and the max drive name length is insanely small on the other formats, I use windows 10 and the allocation unit size is 128 kilobytes which I like, Will I see a very noticeable speed decrease if I do this?

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A little.
Sep 17, 2015 5:30PM PDT
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USB File System
Sep 17, 2015 10:29PM PDT

Good day!

Here's the option,

-If you are sharing a drive between computers and don’t need to use big files, FAT32 works almost everywhere but doesn’t support files bigger than 4GB. This is the default for flash drives since it works everywhere.

-If you do need to use files bigger than 4GB, exFAT works on Windows, Linux (with FUSE), and OS X. This is probably the best choice for a shared hard drive that will only be plugged into a computer.

-If you are only adding files from Windows and you need to use big files, NTFS works almost everywhere, although is read-only on OS X and doesn’t work on some media players.

I hope this will help your concern.

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I generaly dont go > than 4gb but don't want FAT 32
Sep 18, 2015 10:14AM PDT

I use my flashdrive with windows 7 and 10 an nothing else and im assuming anything that works on one of them works on the other, but does NTFS go slower than exFAT, because if it doesn't I wanted the drive name to be longer than 11 characters (this isn't my #1 concern) ?
But, I this is the first I am reading about it only working on some media players, If I take a file off of NTFS and into exFAT or FAT 32 would it work then?
I guess those are my only 2 concerns unless there is another aspect that these file systems have that I'm unaware of.
--- Thanks for your input it has already been helpful.