NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- EaseUS, a global leader in partition management and disk optimization software, announced the upcoming release of EaseUS Partition Master 20.0, redefining what ...

Microsoft has made its last remaining File Allocation Table (FAT) file system's intellectual property, the Extended FAT (exFAT) patents, available to Linux and open-source developers via the Open ...

With Apple's licensing of Microsoft's exFAT file system, it seems like we finally have a good option for OS X and Windows disk swapping. Dave Girard spent some time investigating the appeal, the ...

Why is your USB drive so slow? If your drive is formatted in FAT32 or exFAT (the latter of which can handle larger capacity drives), you have your answer. USB drive vendors tend to format their drives ...

Sharp Corp. is now one of a growing list of companies licensing the exFAT file system from Microsoft. Microsoft has signed up a number of other companies as exFAT licensees, including Sony, Canon, ...

The overwhelming majority of USB flash drives you buy are going to come in one of two formats: FAT32 or NTFS. The first format, FAT32, is fully compatible with Mac OS X, though with some drawbacks ...

After our Windows encryption showdown, reader Jerod passed along this tip to make sure your encrypted volumes, especially external hard drives, in Windows play nicely with other platforms like OS ...

Currently storing my LR library on a portable drive mounted on my iMac, where I do most of my LR use. Recently bought a HP laptop to take on trips and thinking about setting up LR there as well.

Using the FAT or exFAT file systems? You'll have to convert your drives to NTFS if you want to keep syncing them with Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage service. I’m the deputy managing editor of the ...