The keyword here is “modern”. Some people use older hardware, like DVRs with ancient firmwares.
Most people, nowadays, use cloud services instead of USB sticks, so I guess it’s preferred to focus on supporting legacy devices.
The real problem may be external hard drives. Those are commonly used by media creators. Unless they know that they should format to exFAT when buying, they will learn it when it’s way too late.
I may be on the later category. It was ~15 years ago, and little Jimmy (me) got his first external hard drive. However, he didn’t know about formats, and that he couldn’t copy 4.5GB movies to his new toy.
Back then, it was either 4GB file size limit (FAT32), or it only works on one platform (NTFS, ext2, whatever Apple was using, …)
I think they mean compatibility with old devices like 5-10 year old handheld devices that don’t get updates.
There was a period where very early digital cameras (think 1.2 megapixels) could only read up to 4 gigabyte memory cards, so camera stores had a stock of smaller cards for when people came in with ‘old faithful’ and couldn’t get the 8, 16 and 32 gig cards working with it.
I’m not sure companies want to risk a corrupted card killing all of. 2 hour recording where the practice of splitting into 4gig chunks for later reconstruction might mean only the latest 15-29 minutes of a recording is lost if corrupted.
exFAT is fully compatible with all modern OSs and any device running a somewhat modern Linux kernel
The keyword here is “modern”. Some people use older hardware, like DVRs with ancient firmwares.
Most people, nowadays, use cloud services instead of USB sticks, so I guess it’s preferred to focus on supporting legacy devices.
The real problem may be external hard drives. Those are commonly used by media creators. Unless they know that they should format to exFAT when buying, they will learn it when it’s way too late.
I may be on the later category. It was ~15 years ago, and little Jimmy (me) got his first external hard drive. However, he didn’t know about formats, and that he couldn’t copy 4.5GB movies to his new toy.
Back then, it was either 4GB file size limit (FAT32), or it only works on one platform (NTFS, ext2, whatever Apple was using, …)
I think they mean compatibility with old devices like 5-10 year old handheld devices that don’t get updates.
There was a period where very early digital cameras (think 1.2 megapixels) could only read up to 4 gigabyte memory cards, so camera stores had a stock of smaller cards for when people came in with ‘old faithful’ and couldn’t get the 8, 16 and 32 gig cards working with it.
I’m not sure companies want to risk a corrupted card killing all of. 2 hour recording where the practice of splitting into 4gig chunks for later reconstruction might mean only the latest 15-29 minutes of a recording is lost if corrupted.