Some systems which are less sophisticated ( example : car audio system, audio players) may not be able to detect the files in the Flash drive.ġ. At the same time compatibility of the USB flash drive will decrease. This has been done to increase the read and write speed of files in the USB Flash Drive.
Other modern operating system like Linux and Mac should not face any issue in detecting this USB Flash drive. The USB Flash Drive formatted with Allocation unit size of 64 KB can be used on computer with Windows OS without any issue. Allocation unit size (cluster size) represents the smallest unit of disk storage space will be used to hold the file data.Īllocation unit size has does impact the read and write speed of the disk.Īllocation unit size of 64 KB gives fast read and write performance in the USB Flash Drive.
