jonathan7 said:

brash_stryker said:

I'm sure I read somewhere that formatting small flash memory modules as NTFS gradually reduced the capacity or did some other damage....that's why I took it for granted people would be using FAT32 :-)

Urban legend I think... All my hard-drives, portable hard-drives and USB sticks are NTFS and given some are 5 years old, they're all good :-p

Maybe they meant that as the filesystem size gets smaller, using NTFS leaves less available space for user data since it's overhead is bigger (thus taking up a larger percentage of total space)?

It might also cause the media to wear out faster if NTFS is more write heavy than another FS since the number of writes to flash memory is more limited than magnetic media.