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by creshal 1383 days ago
> I guess 4GB seemed like a reasonable limit when FAT32 was designed.

FAT32 was always seen as stop-gap measure for low-end consumer hardware when introduced in 1996; NTFS was introduced 3 years prior to handle terabyte-scale data for enterprise users.

> Most likely FAT32 has a 32bit number for file size and ExFAT presumably has either a 64bit one

Correct.