This may be kind of a nerdy rant/problem. I bought a Western Digital 1TB external drive. It works great, it's fast, etc.
So recently I'm offloading some video I had imported, and get the error that the files are too large for the format of the drive. I'm thinking, that's weird. Turns out it's formatted in Fat32, which has a max file size of 4GB according to wikipedia. So now I'm having to copy all the files to another drive so I can reformat it with NTFS. My question/complaint is, why the hell would you sell a drive still formatted as FAT32? Wouldn't most people be using it for big ass files? Maybe it's because OS X can't write to a NTFS partition, just read. Or maybe some other weird reason. I thought NTFS was the default file format for Windows since NT. But I guess you can still format a drive in Fat32 if you want. I've also noticed it seems to be the default for network drives, flash drives, etc. Is it just some stupid backwards compatibility thing for the people out there still rocking ME and 98? ----------------------------- Todd Elliott [email protected] http://www.techdiffpodcast.com/ http://www.theuniquegeek.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
