[Ace Gunner]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

First of all, magnetic drives themselves don't have a specific filesystem.

A FAT32 drive can be reformatted to NTFS, EXT3/4, XFS, or whatever hell else you want.

A pre-formatted Seagate with NTFS isn't anymore expensive than a Seagate pre-formatted with FAT32.

If you're talking about solid state stuff like USB thumb drives, you shouldn't be formatting them FAT32, you should be formatting them EXFAT, if you're using them with Windows, because it's far more efficient at keeping the drive alive.

Finally, FAT32 cannot store files larger than 4GiB. It is mathematically impossible.

The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GiB minus 1 byte or 4,294,967,295 (232 − 1) bytes. This limit is a consequence of the file length entry in the directory table and would also affect huge FAT16 partitions with a sufficient sector size.[1] Video applications, DVD images, large databases, and some other software easily exceed this limit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Al...on_Table#FAT32

dude, this a mac/unix thread. you're talking windows/dos.