Top 10 List of Week 03

1. What Is a File System, and Why Are There So Many of Them?

This article shows us what file systems are and the reason they vary between operating systems. The article also has an overview on some file systems commonly used.

2. Why Do Removable Drives Still Use FAT32 Instead of NTFS?

This article tells us why removable drives still uses FAT32 instead of NTFS. The article shows us the problems of FAT32 file system and why those problems doesn’t really affect the use of removable drives.

3. Not all external hard drives will work properly when connected to a TV’s USB port

This article shows us why an external hard drive might not work when you connect it to your TV. The reason might be that your TV does not support NTFS and prefers FAT32 instead. Though newer TV might not experience this.

4. Why The Web Has So Many Different Image Formats

This article tells us the reason behind there are so many image formats (There are more than 12). Compression being one of the reason which leads to less use of space.

5. What is the HEIF (or HEIC) Image Format?

This article tells us about the High Efficiency Image Format (HEIF) and how it is much better than the standard image format, JPEG. This image format has been used by Apple since 2017 to reduce the file size of images because of the increasing in detail of phone cameras.

6. Beginner Geek: Hard Disk Partitions Explained

This article shows us about the different types of Hard Disk Partitions, how to partition your drives, and many more. One interesting fact that you might not know is that partitioning your disks won’t give you performance benefits since they are still from the same physical hardware.

7. Why are swap partitions discouraged on SSD drives, are they harmful?

This forum talks about why swap partition is not recommended on devices with SSD drives. One of the answers given gave a couple of conditions when to use swap partitions and when not to use swap partitions.

8. What Is EFI System Partition? Can You Delete It?

This article tells us about what Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) system partition is and whether it is deleteable. You shouldn’t delete it though because it is essential for booting to your operating system.

9. Why Deleted Files Can Be Recovered, and How You Can Prevent It

This article shows us about how your files aren’t really deleted when you delete it and how can you prevent it from happening. What’s interesting here is that the article tells us that this might no happen if you are using an SSD since it works differently than Hard Disk Drives.

10. Network File System (NFS)

This article tells us about the Network File System (NFS). GeeksForGeeks really did a great job on explaining NFS and added some additional knowledge like Client-Side Caching to improve NFS performance.