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Originally Posted by Mutiny32
DO NOT format and keep flash device using NTFS. It will drastically reduce the life of the drive/media. NTFS is a journaled File System.
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Modern flash devices can sustain tens of thousands of write/erase cycles nowadays and the lifecycle of flash drives are several years at best. By the time the sectors are worn out, devices 10 times larger will be equally cheap. I doubt WM can even read NTFS file systems anyway. As long as you utilize the safely remove devices function, NTFS is an effective way to transport large files.
exFAT is apparently a new filesystem that was created along with Windows Vista, but it seems to have limited implementation so far. It allows for larger file sizes like NTFS, but none of the disadvantages like caching and more intensive read/write.