Sandisk Extreme 64GB - Slower write speeds after system format

Hi,

I just came accros this topic and want to add my findings.

I bought a SANDISK Cruzer Ultra Flair 3.0 128 GB, which didn’t let me copy files larger then 4Gb. (on windows and linux)

Trying to find an solution I read about the three file systems and their differences: Fat32, exFat and NTSF.

Two different windows computers showed that the usb-stick was formatted as exFAT.

As a test I tried to copy an .iso file from 4.7Gb to the stick. All attemps failed, a message stated:  the file is too large.

Then I  re-formatted (slow) the stick in a windows computer to exFAT.

After that I was able to copy the 4.7Gb .iso file to the usb-stick.

It looks like as if Sandisk  is using a modified exFAT  file system, perhaps to support their SanDiskSecureAccess environment.

(as a result, customers are not able to share easily  (high resolution holiday :wink:) movies among each other)

It would be nice to know if it  is a modified exFAT file sytem or not.