Review on 💽 WD 500GB My Passport Go SSD Cobalt: Portable External Storage with USB 3.0 - WDBMCG5000ABT-WESN by Steven Pankey

This drive is pretty slow and the files are taking up way more space than they should. Found out that this is a disk with exFAT partitions. It was a patch between FAT32 and NTFS. The problem is the file size limit and when you run exFAT, a folder with lots of files takes up a huge waste of space because exFAT allocates it. Now when you copy a large file, say an ISO disc, it's lightning fast. But a folder with thousands of small files is very slow and the allocation size takes up twice as much space as it should. So the answer is, before using it, format it in NFTS and that will help a lot to solve the problem. Maybe someone with more experience than me can explain. Anyway, I got about 200 MEG for transferring a big file. Using USB 3.0 with exFAT for an ISO drive. The multi-file folder was 15 MEG. Switch to NTFS if possible and definitely save a lot of space. About 50% for me.