You plug in a fresh USB drive, Windows asks how you'd like to format it, and then you're staring at a dropdown menu offering three cryptic acronyms: NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT. No explanation. No guidance ...

I just picked up some external hard drives but can't decide what to format them as. Mac OS Journaled or exFat? Is there any speed difference between the two? I assume exFAT isn't much better than ...

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 ...