jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoMicrosoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decadeswww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1293arrow-down118
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minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·3 months agoFAT32 is also really simple to implement. Supporting exFAT may require a larger microcontroller with more memory, which results in a more expensive product.
minus-squareA_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·edit-23 months agoFAT32 is the java of file systems. Works everywhere, on anything. But everyone hates it.
minus-squareAnd009@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoEven my speaker can read fat32, but I never format any storage in that system
FAT32 is also really simple to implement. Supporting exFAT may require a larger microcontroller with more memory, which results in a more expensive product.
FAT32 is the java of file systems. Works everywhere, on anything. But everyone hates it.
Even my speaker can read fat32, but I never format any storage in that system