NTFS vs FAT32 vs exFAT - Everything You Need To Know

Like JavaScript Frameworks there are way too many filesystems in the world. When it comes to Windows the three main file systems are NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT. But what are the differences? And which one should you be using? Let's find out.




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imagine how cool it would be if Gary was your professor

[chrisarmstrong]

Gary, could you please do a video on GPT, MBR, UEFI, BIOS, etc for Windows.

[NedalHanna]

Just remember if you format an external harddrive FAT32, you cannot store files larger than 4 GB on it.

[petrslavik]

Thanks for a very nice and informative video, Gary! Will you continue in this fashion and discuss filesystems related to Linux and macOS?

[LetrixAR]

4:35 - The partition table tab also affects compatibility. I remember my father buying multiple USB drives because wouldn't work on the TV because I flashed Windows with GPT. It took me a while to know that GPT wasn't compatible. Replaced with MBR and worked again.

[sandysalgotra]

Thanks a ton Gary for this vid. Wanted to understand this since long. Crystal clear now.👍👍👍👍

[CanadairCL]

Thanks Gary, that was well explained!

[EnsignRho]

Was hoping for some internal mechanics, like how FAT physically works on the disk. How NTFS, ext4, JFS, etc. work.

[raserapps]

really interesting, learnt a lot from this!

Sometimes when I run a live USB linux distro, I run out of space fast when theres still lots of room on the USB drive. Even when I do a persistence mode USB, it tends to do like 4 to 5GB with the OS filesystem then the persistence partition is seperate - but locked down. This has given me an idea to try different filesystems. thanks

[walterpark]

Excellent summary. Even though I use all of these on Win and Linux, there, was new info here for me.

Will you please do a similar review of 5 or 6 major linux file systems. I'd like to know more about BTRFS and ZFS especially. Thanks, as always.

[shubhamdwivedi]

Sometimes I hear Gary Sins then I have to pause and check the channel name lol
Nice explanation as always👍

[reneseib]

Wow what a good way of explaining, thank you

[shobeirasayesh]

Fantastic simulation of the sound of putting a file/directory to trash bin @ 7:40

Appreciate your video.

[gdthegreat]

Hey man, thanks a lot for these videos.

[ramosmanos]

I had an experience with recent (for that time) ubuntu 20.04 and I couldn't mount fat32-formatted flash drives. For this reason, now all my flash cards which I plug-in both to linux and windows machines, are formatted in ntfs. And yes, it seems this concerns only rw mode, when one needs to specify -o options for sudo mount. If read-only access is needed, it seems everything is mounted, but -o options are not required.

[Faroan]

thanks alot for detailed explanation 👍🏻

[dragounay]

Thanks for the video professor Gary 👍
Can filesystem difference between Windows and Linux explain some speed difference ? As I always Linux file operations to happen faster than on Windows (such as copying, extracting, or just searching files)

[Spike-qhbb]

Great perfect just what I needed to know.

[ssthapit]

Was looking all over to find out if it is better to use NTFS on my external SSD if I am only ever going to use the drive on a PC and got the answer in the video. Thanks.

[nitrovenom]

Gary saar please do a video on EXT4 vs F2FS or CRC and Fsync on vs CRC and Fsync on )( disabling CRC and Fsync increases storage speed by a lot! You need kernel level support to turn them off 🙄