We will be providing you with two processes – one is targeted at those geeks who have already rooted their devices and the other for the standard user who doesn’t like to root their Android smartphones. You now know exactly what NTFS and FAT32 mean. Hence the SD cards and pen drives come formatted in FAT32 format to make the life of average users hassle-free. Actually, till date, most Camera, MP3 player, and even DVD/Blu Ray player support only FAT32 format. After coming across all the advantages, NTFS provides over the older format you might be wondering why. Most SD cards/pen drives still come formatted in FAT32. But yes it is possible via certain simple tweaks which we will show you below. Android still doesn’t support NTFS read/write capabilities natively. But recent gen Linux support both read/write for NTFS. Linux too suffers from compatibility issues. This NTFS read capability is available only from MAC OSX and upwards. It means that if you have an NTFS formatted pen drive connected to your laptop, you can only read files. In spite of these advantages, there are a few catches:Īpple’s Mac OS still doesn’t support writing capabilities from NTFS drives. But you will notice this only when you are using a USB 3.0 pen drive. NTFS also had a higher read and write speed as compared to FAT32. NTFS offers more built-in security for your files and folders. Hence dividing a 4TB hard drive into a 3TB partition won’t be an issue. The limitation of the maximum partition size is no longer valid. Most video files are in excess of 4GB, and that makes copying files between/across FAT32 drives impossible. If you are a frequent downloader of Full HD videos or even a 4K videos from the net, you will understand my point pretty well.
Now the file size is no longer limited to 4GB. NTFS negates a big disadvantage of the FAT32 drives in the form of max file size. NTFS has numerous advantages over the FAT32 (File Allocation Table), which are listed below: It wasn’t until the release of the good old Windows XP that NTFS became popular as a drive format. Both these Operating systems were built keeping Microsoft’s commercial clients in mind and hence failed to be popular among home users. NTFS is the newer file format among the two, which was introduced by Microsoft back in 1993 in their Windows NT 3.1 and the Windows 2000. And if you are still using FAT32 as your default format, we would recommend you to upgrade to NTFS due to a no of advantages listed below. We would be briefing you about the various data encoding formats before we get on with the real deal. Just in case you haven’t come across these terms, you needn’t worry cause we have you covered there.
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