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We have been using it as a basic feature in dos/windows since the floppy drives,
but then you say
It’s 2014
Yup, it is 2014, and you can’t buy DOS floppies anymore and your machine is running Windows not DOS but you’re still doing things like it was 1974. Why should SanDisk change when you haven’t?
FAT32 is a format that is compatible across multiple OSs, and multiple devices. People use removable devices in more than their 386 machines now days. Desktop machines, notebooks, ipads, tv, printers, etc. Thus the use of the FAT32 format today.
But the FAT32 format is indeed an old format and people are creating files larger than 740 KB floppies. So newer, larger drives have an exFAT format but they don’t work in all devices, most TVs for example.
And yes, sometimes one has to reformat a device/drive to resolve a problem. File size limitation, device corruption, etc. But doing it for a reason is not the same as doing it because that’s what you have always done with floppies.
