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evan mcnix

very informative, thank you for the detailed breakdown. regarding the pros & cons & their similarities,

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

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Adam Bollen

Very detailed and the exact information I was looking for. I have recently made the move to MAC and immediately found I needed a better solution for my NTFS external storage devices and this cleared up the need for exFAT.
Thanks!

Kenny D.

I got a Seagate BackUpSlim (2tb) to backup Windows 7 files including system files. I used backup and restore to get a full backup. Now I review properties of the BUS backup drive and it indicates files were backed up but not system files as the BUS has exFAT file system instead of NTFS (Windows 7 system). If I format the BUS to NTFS I likely will loose any Seagate tools on the drive to manage future backups. ExFAT, then, has significant limitations under Windows platforms (NTFS).

Anonymouse

I used this info to choose how to format a new official Samsung SD Card for my Samsung mobile phone. Bought and format in December 2021. Now it’s August 2022 and a lot of files are corrupt and can’t be repaired anymore. I used the SD card as a back-up for my music and photographs. So I did back-up all my files every quaterly, and copied it from phone to PC/external hard drive (1st), and (2nd) cut-paste it from phone to SD card phone. So I have all my stuff in back-up. No files were lost. But I have a lot of corrupt files. And my phone even gave me a notice that there is an issue with the SD card and I need to format it to use it again. Because as a security measure the phone locked my SD card as a ‘read only’ before more damage wil be done. I think about 1 of every hundred pictures or movies are corrupt. With a couple of hundred GB of data, this is about 100 corrupt files. That’s way too much for my liking, in 8 months time!!! So I will format it again in normal FAT32. Way more steady imo!!!

Ciprian Adrian Rusen

Thanks for sharing your experience with exFAT. It will surely help other readers understand the disadvantages of this format.