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Which format shall be used ?
Hi.
I have a 2TB harddisk, that I want to use as backup media.
I shall format it, and the question now is, which format shall it be formatted with ?.
NTFS FAT32 ?
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You will get better cluster sizes and less waste using the NTFS format structure.
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