Windows File Systems

Four primary Windows File System:

NTFS (most common)
FAT32
exFAT
REFS

Here is a chart that may help you make sense of the volume and file size limitations referenced in the video:

Decimal Based Storage Units

Storage Unit	Value	Bytes
Byte (B)	1	1
Kilobyte (KB)	10^3	1,000
Megabyte (MB)	10^6	1,000,000
Gigabyte (GB)	10^9	1,000,000,000
Terabyte (TB)	10^12	1,000,000,000,000
Petabyte (PB)	10^15	1,000,000,000,000,000
Exabyte (EB)	10^18	1,000,000,000,000,000,000
Zettabyte (ZB)	10^21	1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Yottabyte (YB)	10^24	1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Brontobyte (BB)	10^27	1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
GeopByte (GpB)	10^30	1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Binary Based Storage Units

Notation	Symbol	Value	Bytes
1 kibibyte	1 KiB	2^10	1,024
1 mebibyte	1 MiB	2^20	1,048,576
1 gebibyte	1 GiB	2^30	1,073,741,824
1 tebibyte	1 TiB	2^40	1,099,511,627,776
1 pebibyte	1 PiB	2^50	1,125,899,906,842,62
1 exbibyte	1 EiB	2^60	1,152,921,504,606,840,000
1 zebibyte	1 ZiB	2^70	1,180,591,620,717,410,000,000
1 yobibyte	1 YiB	2^80	1,208,925,819,614,620,000,000,000

Windows File Systems

In this lecture, you are going to learn about Windows Server File Systems.

Now, a File System is something that you are going to create when you create a Windows Volume.

File Systems allow you to store data on your Hard Drive.

With Windows there are four primary File Systems that we are going to be working with:

First, there’s NTFS (New Technology File System). This is the most common you will be working with. When you are creating File Systems you most likely want to use NTFS. If you don’t remember anything about this lecture, just remember, when making a F…