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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 571842" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I would strongly discourage anyone from using FAT32 due to its limitations, some severe. FAT32 partitions get increasingly slower and inefficient with drive sizes larger than 32Gb for starters. It doesn't have some security features that NTFS offers. And it's far more susceptible to file corruptions.</p><p> </p><p>Here's a detailed article that explains the differences between FAT32 and NTFS. Especially informative/interesting is one section that describes how NTFS is actually more compatible with the way Macs write file data than FAT32 is.</p><p><a href="http://faq.arstechnica.com/link.php?i=1227&PHPSESSID=e4d8cf0fe701ed08817285b0792122fb" target="_blank">http://faq.arstechnica.com/link.php?...85b0 792122fb</a></p><p></p><p>OS X has built-in support to read NTFS volumes, but you can enable OS X to have write access to NTFS volumes by installing a couple free packages called MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You will have to format in NTFS using Windows though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 571842, member: 38864"] I would strongly discourage anyone from using FAT32 due to its limitations, some severe. FAT32 partitions get increasingly slower and inefficient with drive sizes larger than 32Gb for starters. It doesn't have some security features that NTFS offers. And it's far more susceptible to file corruptions. Here's a detailed article that explains the differences between FAT32 and NTFS. Especially informative/interesting is one section that describes how NTFS is actually more compatible with the way Macs write file data than FAT32 is. [URL="http://faq.arstechnica.com/link.php?i=1227&PHPSESSID=e4d8cf0fe701ed08817285b0792122fb"]http://faq.arstechnica.com/link.php?...85b0 792122fb[/URL] OS X has built-in support to read NTFS volumes, but you can enable OS X to have write access to NTFS volumes by installing a couple free packages called MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You will have to format in NTFS using Windows though. [/QUOTE]
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