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Disk refers to the use of magnetic recording technology to store data memory. Disk is the main storage medium of computer, which can store a large amount of binary data and keep the data intact after power failure. Windows disk formats are mainly FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, etc., the latest format is exFAT, different disk formats have different characteristics.

A disk is a memory that stores data using magnetic recording technology.

Disk is the main storage medium of computer, which can store a large amount of binary data and keep the data intact after power failure. The disk used by early computers was a floppy disk (floppy disk), and today the disk commonly used is a hard disk (hard disk).

disk format

Windows disk formats are mainly FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, etc., the latest format is exFAT, different disk formats have different characteristics. FAT format is largely no longer used. Under Linux, the format is ext series, ext 4, ext3, etc.

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More than 4GB of U disk format is NTFS partition by default, but this format is very harmful to U disk, because NTFS partition is a "journaling" file system, need to record detailed read and write operations, will certainly be more harmful flash disk chip, because to constantly read and write.

See below for a comparison of exFAT, NTFS, FAT partitions

Partition Format FAT32NTFSexFAT Operating System Win 95 OSR2 After Win 2000 After Win CE 6/Vista SP1 Minimum sector 512 bytes 512bytes Maximum sector 64KB64KB32768KB Maximum single file 2 bytes-4 GB Maximum partition capacity 16EB (theoretical) Maximum formatted capacity 2TB(but NT kernel system limit is 32GB) 2TB~256TB (affected by MBR) 16EB (theoretical)(Support up to 256TB) Number of files 4194304 None Can be at least 1000

Advantages of exFAT

1. Support for very large files and storage devices

2. Improved support for performance

3. Support for scalability capabilities for future innovations

4. Add Flash media compatibility

Disadvantages of exFAT

Windows version requirements are high.

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