Microsoft has released the much-anticipated announcement for Windows 11 users. The FAT32 size limit that has existed on Windows for 30 years is finally becoming history. FAT, which is limited to 32 GB, will now support sizes up to 2 TB.
Microsoft has increased the FAT32 size limit to 2 TB in Windows 11!
FAT32, which first appeared in Windows 95, has been providing services with a size of 32 GB for about 30 years. This limit, determined by former developer Dave Plummer, was explained by the developer in X as “It was an arbitrary choice, but it has become permanent.” In other words, there is no special feature of FAT32 being 32 GB.
Microsoft, which gave the expected news for FAT32 in a blog post containing the details of the Windows 11 Canary test structure, made the statement, “When formatting disks from the command line using the format command, we increased the FAT32 size limit from 32 GB to 2 TB.”
Thanks to this, you will now be able to increase FAT-based memories such as NTFS up to 2 TB. Of course, the removal of the 32 GB limit of FAT32 also made the name lose its meaning. What do you think of Microsoft’s new update? Will FAT32 being 2 TB be useful to you? Let’s discuss in the comments.
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