Comparison of advantages and disadvantages of four USB disk partition formats

U disk partition format is good or bad, directly affect the file transfer performance, speed and so on. So everyone in the U disk partition, you should carefully choose what type of u disk format. But we do not know which kind of U-disk format is good, which is bad, below we will focus on the 4 most common U disk format: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, and the 4 kinds of U disk format, each of the advantages and disadvantages are different.

FAT16 format:

Advantages: Compatibility is best, some digital devices may not support FAT32 and NTFS-formatted memory cards, so you can only use FAT16.

Disadvantage: The maximum support only 2GB partition, space waste is big.

Note: Hurry to see if your USB disk is Fat format, if it is to switch to FAT32 Bar, FAT32 is FAT16 upgrade version.

FAT32 format:

Advantages: Good compatibility.

Disadvantage: A single file can not exceed 4GB, does not support 512MB of the following capacity U disk.

Note: if the U disk capacity of more than 8GB, found that 4GB files are not copied, you can consider switching to NTFS or EXFAT format.

NTFS format:

Advantages: Good compatibility, support any size of u disk.

Disadvantage: Will shorten the flash life.

Note: U disk is very cheap now, not afraid of bad friends use NTFS is actually very good.

exFAT format:

Advantages: Designed for flash memory and U disk design, small space waste.

Disadvantages: Poor compatibility, XP and Vista systems need to update patches to support.

Note: Many people's computers do not open Automatic Updates, nature does not support exFAT, ready to patch file it.

Through the face of 4 of the most common U disk format description and description, you can carefully compare, choose the most suitable for their U disk format. Of course now use FAT32 and NTFS these 2 kinds of U-disk format users more, but everyone's use of different habits, u disk function is not the same, so the other 2 kinds of people use.