Ntfs; Criteria For Choosing Between Fat32 And Ntfs - TrekStor USB-Storage 2.0 User Manual

3 Technical background / Troubleshooting

3.2.2 NTFS

NTFS is the abbreviation for New Technology File System which is the native file system of
Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. NTFS has some functions not available in FAT32
such as compressing and encrypting files, possibility of Disk Mirroring, using RAID-5-functions
and Journaling.
Partitions with NTFS may range from 10 MB up to 2 TB and there's no limit to file-sizes. NTFS-
partitions can only be directly accessed in Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. For
other operating systems there are programs that enable their use (for example Paragon Mount
Everything ).

3.2.3 Criteria for choosing between FAT32 and NTFS

These criteria may help you choose the right file system.
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