• Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean, it’s still way better than Fat, but incredibly incompatible with a lot of things still and new usb drives are always FAT. Shame ntfs didn’t catch on more.

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      1 year ago

      External storage is always FAT, because everything can read FAT, so it just makes life easier for file transfers.

      Not because NTFS/ext4/etc doesnt work on usb sticks.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, but that’s the shame. Ntfs been around for decades, would be great for usb as it allows faster transfer speeds and more secure. Would have been nice if more devices included it so it wasn’t such a compatibility barrier.

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          1 year ago

          I’d rather have universal compatibility myself.

          besides, its not like you cant reformat it to NTFS. They just come stock as fat so you can access them on any device.