I have to recommend against FAT for video files. Sure, FAT-32 claims to
be able to address something like 2TB of storage, but I think you're
taking chances by routinely storing upwards-of-two-GB files on any FAT
partition. For the record, FAT-32's maximum single-file size is (2^32)
- 1 bytes, or a byte less than 4GB (see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463/EN-US/ ).
The OP said he guessed his files would be 1-2 GB in size.. But if we're
talking about video editing here, depending on the project, it seems too
likely that that'll prove a conservative estimate.
~B
Ian Kilgore wrote:
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:29:31AM -0400, Brian Henning wrote:
There are ext3 drivers for Windows, though I'm not sure if they're any
better at writing than Linux's NTFS modules..
~B
They almost certainly are, given that ext3 is open. If you plan to be
blorping data back and forth between windows and linux, I don't
reccomend NTFS. You /can/ write to it, but sometimes (often, in my
experience) it breaks, and why use it when you can use something that
works? (eg FAT).
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