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Old September 17th, 2010, 04:55 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by UncleMike View Post
The use of FAT32 probably has more to do with ease of access using multiple operating systems for when your device is attached to a computer. File system performance was probably a secondary consideration at best.
That's really the only reason its FAT32. Pretty much anything can read it. Even Windows 95. I mean, we have external hard drives formatted in FAT32, even though NTFS, HFS+ and ext4 are far better since they support files larger than 4 GB, among other advantages. However, you lose compatibility when you use these.
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