File Systems and thumb drives: Choosing between FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS to get a faster USB Flash Drive

        I use USB flash drives (also know as thumb drives and UFDs) often and was wondering how to squeeze the most performance out of them. I noticed most came formatted FAT16 (just called FAT when you use format from Windows XP’s GUI) and was wondering what kind of performance boost I might get from formatting the flash media as FAT32 or NTFS.

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