I just bought a external hd (WD passport)...its in FAT32 format...should i convert to NTFS or leave it as FAT32? I'm not sure which is better.

4/30/2009 3:22:52 PM

are you going to be putting files larger than 4gb on there (HD movies, for example)? if so, NTFS is your only option...past that, it really doesn't matter, i don't think

4/30/2009 3:43:02 PM

FAT32 integrity is pretty garbage and everything can read/write ntfs these days. definitely go with ntfs

4/30/2009 3:53:35 PM

no contest. ntfs.

4/30/2009 4:16:18 PM

ReiserFS

4/30/2009 4:50:20 PM

^only if you want all your porn changed into the "snuff" variety

4/30/2009 4:53:18 PM

*ba dum CHHH*

4/30/2009 7:22:24 PM

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"and everything can read/write ntfs these days"

except for the ps3

4/30/2009 8:31:13 PM

damn, so if i conver to NTFS i can't play movies from it to ps3...what about using for macs too?

4/30/2009 9:48:21 PM

Unless you install the drive in the PS3, I don't think it will make a difference whether it's NTFS or FAT32 (other than files size restrictions mentioned before).

4/30/2009 10:50:21 PM

FAT12

5/1/2009 2:15:49 AM

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"no contest. ntfs."

5/1/2009 2:22:59 AM

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"damn, so if i conver to NTFS i can't play movies from it to ps3"

not when it is connected via usb

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"Unless you install the drive in the PS3, I don't think it will make a difference whether it's NTFS or FAT32"

You can hookup a fat32 ext hdd to a ps3 to play movies, pictures, music.

5/1/2009 3:36:01 AM

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"You can hookup a fat32 ext hdd to a ps3 to play movies, pictures, music."

but why would you do that when you can just stream it across the network? DLNA actually works fairly well...

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"what about using for macs too?"

OS X has been able to read NTFS partitions for a while now (along with every other unix variant out there).

for write support, someone ported ntfs-3g over to the MacFUSE model:
http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

5/1/2009 6:51:33 AM

WinFS

5/1/2009 11:23:35 AM

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"I just bought a external hd (WD passport)...its in FAT32 format"

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"but why would you do that when you can just stream it across the network? DLNA actually works fairly well..."

I'm saying he could do that with fat32 but not ntfs, not that he should do it, just that he can.

5/1/2009 1:38:09 PM

ext4

5/1/2009 1:54:04 PM

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"WinFS"

and don't forget to install Duke Nukem Forever on it

5/1/2009 6:48:59 PM

^you can still use WinFS. Just because they stopped development on it 4 years ago doesn't mean it's inoperable. You can still download the 2006 Beta if you are a MSDN subscriber.

Some of the core ideas of WinFS have found their way into Win7 (libraries), but rather than being at a filesystem kernel level, this functionality is being done as a middle-tier solution (from the very very little I know).

If you have the time to spare go download it or find a torrent, it's still a really interesting (and working) filesystem.

5/1/2009 8:07:28 PM

What kind of corporate brain wash program did they run you through?

5/2/2009 9:21:35 AM

WinFS was going to be bad ass

5/4/2009 1:06:22 PM

i don't trust any non MS ntfs write support
too many horror stories about corrupted data

5/6/2009 12:58:48 AM