Is there any harm in formatting my pen drive to the NTFS format? Will I be able to takeout windows backup on my pen drive if done so? - Quora
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This is a 32GB Transcend pen drive. This pen drive has FAT32 by default. If I change to NTFS, would it affect the pen drive's life span? : r/pcmasterrace
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