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ExFAT is not limited to a 4GB maximum file size. It just has more than 4GB in the file. I guess 4GB seemed like a reasonable limit when FAT32 was designed. Mo

ExFAT is not limited to a 4GB maximum file size. It just has more than 4GB in the file. I guess 4GB seemed like a reasonable limit when FAT32 was designed. Most likely FAT32 has a 32bit number for file size and ExFAT presumably has either a 64bit one or stores file size in some format other than bytes.

creshal 4y ago
> I guess 4GB seemed like a reasonable limit when FAT32 was designed. FAT32 was always seen as stop-gap measure for low-end consumer hardware when introduced in 1996; NTFS was introduced 3 years prior to handle terabyte-scale data for enterprise users. > Most likely FAT32 has a 32bit number for file size and ExFAT presumably has either a 64bit one Correct.