The question has to do with AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard (which is free for home users and I’ve used it many times, so I do recommend it, and no I’m not affiliated but it deserves mention). “Thank you so much for contacting us, if you convert a partition with NTFS file system to FAT32 file system, the creation/modified dates of all the files remain intact.” Windows doesn’t have a native utility for NTFS -> FAT32, but AOMEI tech support tells me the following: All external drives have the FAT32 file system, so I started to think maybe it would be better for the data partition to also use FAT32, maybe for cleaner backups and in case the drive ever needs to be pulled out and plugged in somewhere else, the data at least could be more easily recovered. What I’m really thinking about is the data partition. That’s a factor, but not the main factor. Over time I’ve come to learn that NTFS does many more read/write operations than FAT32, thus possibly reducing the longevity of an SSD.
SuperUser reader frogsbottom wants to know if it would be better to use the FAT32 file system (rather than NTFS) for an internal SSD data partition:
