Explain the difference between NTFS and exFAT in the flash partition format.

U disk partition format I believe everyone knows some, the more common are FAT, FAT32, NTFS and exFAT, FAT has been slowly eliminated, due to the single file The bigger the value (such as high-definition movies, large game installation packages), the more than 4G files, the FAT32 format is not supported, so the NTFS or exFAT format is a suitable partition format for U disk. So, do you know the difference between these two storage formats? Or which one is more suitable for flash memory? Combined with the case small series will explain the difference between the flash disk partition format NTFS and exFAT partition, let's take a look.

Xiao Wang recently purchased a 16GB HD player that can directly play 1080p HD video, so he will show off from time to time. But not long after, he saw him with a bitter face. He had a tricky problem: every time he copied more than 4GB of HD video to a high-definition player, he would get a "flash memory shortage" prompt, but play it. The built-in flash memory capacity monitor shows that there is still about 8GB of free space. The reason is because the conventional FAT32 partition format of flash memory does not support files larger than 4 GB. To this end, I recommend that he replace the file partition format of the built-in flash memory with NTFS or exFAT.

Since most HD players currently use flash memory as a storage medium and set the factory default file format to FAT32, most HD player users will encounter this problem. The solution is to change the file storage format to NTFS or exFAT. What is the difference between these two storage formats? Or which one is more suitable for flash?

The most versatile partition champion NTFS

NTFS (New Technology File System) is WindowsNT and advanced The file system of the server network operating system environment was originally designed to provide higher reliability than FAT32 and eliminate the FAT32 file system capacity limit. In addition to supporting larger partitions and files, it also saves hard disk space, it also provides long file names, compressed partitions, event tracking, file indexing, high fault tolerance, data protection and recovery, and encrypted access that FAT32 file system cannot provide. Features. However, why are flash disks and various memory cards rarely partitioned using NTFS?

Originally, although NTFS has many advantages, it is designed for traditional mechanical hard disks. It uses a "log" file system that requires frequent recording of detailed disk read and write operations, which imposes an additional burden on storage media such as flash drives or SSDs. For example, if you access a file or directory, the number of reads and writes in the NTFS partition format is much higher than that of FAT32. Therefore, the flash disk life of the NTFS format partition is theoretically shorter. At the same time, the frequent reading and writing of the NTFS file system also affects the performance of the flash disk, resulting in a drop in the transmission rate. Previous12Next page Total 2 pages