you probably know someone that's always misplacing stuff I do personally whether
they can't find their keys in the morning they leave their clothes everywhere like my sweaters they don't
even know where that stack of $100 bills is that they want to the casino okay
honestly I've never done that but anyways could you imagine if your computer was that forgetful and never
remembered where you put stuff like save games important papers or tax documents
or your operating system fortunately all
computers use some kind of file system so it can keep track of of where all
your stuff is just like how you might use a closet space or cabinets at home
to keep your collection of random clothes and kitchen items from being a
complete mess so how do they do that well there are many different types of
systems out there but what they all have in common is that they divide up your
hard drive SSD or flash drive into small
units that store data and have some kind
of way of remembering what data is in each unit so it can go and find it later
on to better understand how this works and to figure out what system to use for
your own stuff let's have a look at some common file system starting off with
file allocation table or fat and although its name is incredibly
unflattering fat was used by the vast majority of Home Windows-based PCS until
XP came out fat worked by splitting the disc into a bunch of clusters giving
each cluster a unique ID number then using a table to track what part of what
was stored in each cluster all right right pretty straightforward and simple
no big deal there but as hard drives became larger and larger fat ran into
some problems namely it resulted in a lot of wasted space because it often
couldn't fill clusters completely a problem called slack and could only
support drives that were kind of smaller due to the way that fat stored
information about file locations fat 32 which came to prominence with Windows 98
was an improvement but still couldn't deal with partitions larger than 2 tabt
which isn't that big these days to overcome these limitations every version
of Windows since XP and NT 3.1 on the
business side of things has used the only slightly less awkwardly named new
technology file system or NTFS NTFS uses
Some Space Management tricks to make it use space much more efficiently than fat
resulting in better Real World capacity in many cases and can support massive
partitions of hundreds of terabytes as well as huge individual 's file sizes
important in the age of 4K videos that can span multiple hours making them
massive it also has features to help prevent data loss in the event of a
crash native file compression and security features including native file
encryption support to keep out unauthorized users these features have
made NTFS an almost Universal choice for Windows-based PCs these days but just
like it's hard to get rid of those last 10 lbs of fat at the gym fat the file
system hasn't completely gone away fat 32 is still commonly used on USB flash
drives to maintain compatibility with older versions of Windows as well as
operating systems such as Linux and speaking of flash drives there's a new
version of fat called X fat which is surprisingly not the name of a line of
diet supplements X fat was designed specifically with high-capacity flash
drives and memory cards in mind and support much larger capacities and file
sizes than older versions of fat while not including features of NTFS that
flash drives don't really need in order to keep things running quickly X fat
isn't always compatible with some quite a bit older versions of Windows though
so keep that in mind when choosing what you're going to use for your flash drive
if you for some reason are still using like unpatched versions of XP the good
thing though is that it's pretty easy to switch file systems on your flash drive
by just doing a quick reformat after you've saved your file somewhere else of
of course I don't want to be responsible for that but no matter what you choose
you can bet that your drives will keep track of your data better than your
roommate who is always asking you where the TV remote is are you ready for a lus
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