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Fat32 - FAT (File Allocation Table)

The file system that is used/Or ordinarily designed for floppies and used by DOS, W 3.x, W95, Windows NT and OS/2. In technical terms refered as FAT12 and FAT16 in which 12 and 16 standing for bits. A FAT directory holds info such as name, file size, date & time stamp, the starting cluster number and the file attributes like (archive, hidden, system etc.). It's file system can support up to 65,525 clusters and is limited to 2 GB. Works best on small 500mb drives because of the cluster size. It seems to be about 2% faster than FAT32 and NTFS but windows is faster if confined to a small area. FAT performance drops off after 400mb's on up.