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Please explain wasted space on an exFAT formatted external hard drive
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Mar 15, 202656158 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I recently bought a 750 GB 2.5" hard drive and put it in an external enclosure. It has Advanced Format Technology (AFT), but I use Windows 7, so I assumed I would be safe. I decided to try exFAT, because I was enticed by the reduced overhead For "Allocation unit size" I selected "Default allocation…
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The default allocation unit (cluster) size in exFAT is much larger than the default allocation unit size in NTFS. As you've noted in your question, exFAT defaults to 256KB, but NTFS defaults to 4KB for volumes larger than 2 GB. Because allocation of…
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