I've made the long overdue decision to keep backups on an external USB drive, but should I go with NTFS or exFAT for the drive? We have an all Windows household here, and although I fiddle with Linux ...

exFAT on Linux? Nice. Now can we get official support for ext4 on Windows? Pretty please? I'd love to be able to copy lots of small files with reasonable performance, and NTFS just doesn't allow that.

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...

Google has been working on adding more file formats to the Android operating system to extend its compatibility. It was previously reported that Google had added support for exFAT file format in the ...