NTFS, exFAT, and FAT32 finally make sense when you see what each one breaks

Once you've formatted your external drive, you expect it to work everywhere. But in reality, compatibility depends heavily on the filesystem you choose. A perfectly working drive on one system may reject the next big file, and it may even fail if used on a different device. The common advice I've seen is simply to pick NTFS or switch to exFAT, but neither of these explains why.

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