Re: external disks - NTFS?
- From: ric <publicmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:43:44 -0700
On Aug 21, 8:11 am, dans...@xxxxxxx (Daniel Cohen) wrote:
J.J. O'Shea <try.not...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:57:37 -0400, ric wrote
(in article <1187611057.307441.184...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
Anyone any hands on experience? I don't want to format as HFS and buy
Macdrive for her: it's primarily her drive and her machine and FAT32
isn't suitable due to 2gb file size limit...
As of right now, you pretty much have the following choices:
1 format the external drive FAT32 and live with FAT32's limitations.
I think the FAT 32 limit is 4 GB, not 2.
Anyway, that's the limit when formatting as FAT 32 on a Windows machine.
Format as FAT 32 using the Mac, and you can have large drives. I have a
60 GB FAT 32 partition that, so far, works fine. And the hard drive in
my video jukebox is formatted as FAT 32 750 GB. I don't guarantee that
problems will not arise in the long run, but so far so good.
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there are two limits in windows: one is the max size that XP/Vista
will format a FAT32 disk to: 32GB from memory - an artificial limit
designed to encourage the use of the (much more robust) NTFS format.
Older OSs or bootdisks (and of course OS X) will format FAT32 to any
size, though.
However, the individual file size limit is 4gb, which isn't much use
for captured DV where filesizes can be 20GB for an hour...
It looks from above that MacFUSE write to NTFS is alpha, which doesn't
sound great.
Whilst the data stored is only going to be captured DV video, there'll
be a *lot* of it and we'll keep all the captured footage so that it
can be reauthored later as and when - hence it'd be a monumental pain
in the arse if it corrupted as we'd have to recapture hours and hours
of video.
Think I'll stick to NTFS and not bother with the Mac connectivity, or
partition it up into a couple of drives and use one for another iTunes
backup.
Anyone any hands-on experience of using ext2 as a format on both
platforms?
Ric
Ric
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