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<blockquote data-quote="chrisgrant" data-source="post: 932963" data-attributes="member: 122350"><p>Hi Forum,</p><p></p><p>I am a switcher (and happy) and still encounter loads of windows machines in my day to day work (in the IT field)</p><p></p><p>I recently purchased a 500GB External hard drive. I plugged the drive in and was excited to see that the HDD was formatted in FAT32. So I was happy because of FAT32 being an open format which would be read/write compatible with no matter what OS I encountered and had to work on.</p><p></p><p>My question firstly, I thought that FAT32 wasn't implementable on any drive over 40GB ???</p><p>Secondly, is there any problem with running FAT32? Isn't is a very old and antiquated format?</p><p>Thirdly and lastly, is there any speed decrease with having a 500GB drive in FAT32 format? (shouldn't I rather split the drive 50/50 and have one for Windows Things in NTFS (which I can READ under Mac) and 250GB in a Mac HDD Format?</p><p></p><p>I am busy transferring data a large amount of data to the drive on a Windows machine and the transfer rate is bobbing between 11megabytes/serc and 13megabytes/sec</p><p>Now, given that this is a 2.5" hard drive (USB powered) I can understand that there MIGHT be some type of performance decrease when compared to a 3.5" external powered drive. But to put it into perspective, I am used to seeing speeds of 25 to 35 megabytes/sec on the 3.5" drives (running NTFS)</p><p></p><p>Now, my OFFICIAL last question ( <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> ) - is this speed decrease because it is running FAT32 on such a large partition or because this is just normal with the smaller 2.5" external USB powered drives?</p><p></p><p>Your expert opinions and answers appreciated and thanks in advance,</p><p></p><p>Chris Grant</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chrisgrant, post: 932963, member: 122350"] Hi Forum, I am a switcher (and happy) and still encounter loads of windows machines in my day to day work (in the IT field) I recently purchased a 500GB External hard drive. I plugged the drive in and was excited to see that the HDD was formatted in FAT32. So I was happy because of FAT32 being an open format which would be read/write compatible with no matter what OS I encountered and had to work on. My question firstly, I thought that FAT32 wasn't implementable on any drive over 40GB ??? Secondly, is there any problem with running FAT32? Isn't is a very old and antiquated format? Thirdly and lastly, is there any speed decrease with having a 500GB drive in FAT32 format? (shouldn't I rather split the drive 50/50 and have one for Windows Things in NTFS (which I can READ under Mac) and 250GB in a Mac HDD Format? I am busy transferring data a large amount of data to the drive on a Windows machine and the transfer rate is bobbing between 11megabytes/serc and 13megabytes/sec Now, given that this is a 2.5" hard drive (USB powered) I can understand that there MIGHT be some type of performance decrease when compared to a 3.5" external powered drive. But to put it into perspective, I am used to seeing speeds of 25 to 35 megabytes/sec on the 3.5" drives (running NTFS) Now, my OFFICIAL last question ( :D ) - is this speed decrease because it is running FAT32 on such a large partition or because this is just normal with the smaller 2.5" external USB powered drives? Your expert opinions and answers appreciated and thanks in advance, Chris Grant [/QUOTE]
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