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Magne:
Sorry, I meen 1 billion gigabyte!

glynor:

--- Quote from: Magne on February 18, 2013, 05:25:40 am ---The limit for exFAT filesize is 16 Exabyte! I think you mix with FAT32, the earlier version of exFAT. FAT32 maximum filesize is 4 GB. Not a problem with audio, but of course with videofiles.

How much is exabyte? One milion gigabyte! Even you have space for all your videos :) More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte

More info also here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT

--- End quote ---

I knew that was possible with OSX, but I didn't think support for files over 4GB was supported on Windows (meaning the files would be unreadable).  But, I haven't tried, I admit.

FAT, though, still has some serious underlying problems (much like HFS+) which allow the volume to easily fall into an inconsistent state.

Magne:
No problem with exFAT on Windows for this purpose. I run my MC18 library from Windows and exFat formatted external hard drives. At another location I use the same portable library SSD drives for Mac Mini and ITunes/Amarra so far, and from next week with MC18 for Mac. I look forward to analyze the influence on a high end soundstage and differences between platforms.

glynor:
Cool.  Good to know.  As I looked into it after you commented, it did seem like they fixed all of that with Vista, and I'd somehow missed it.

Of course, Windows won't let you format large volumes to exFAT, but you can do that on OSX, so that's not a huge issue.  The bigger issue for me is certainly data integrity.  I've just had way too many hosed (or partially hosed) FAT and HFS+ partitions due to an improper dismount or crash.

NTFS does not do that.

You might lose data that is in-flight (if you don't disable write caching for the volume like a good boy), but the filesystem itself is quite resilient (even NTFS has problems in this regard, but it is miles better than both HFS and FAT, despite extensions).

Apple needs a new filesystem.  HFS was designed for floppies with total sizes measured in KB.  All the extensions they keep adding are band-aids on a sinking ship.

In any case, if you need to use NTFS on OSX, Paragon's driver is awesome, cheap, and reliable.  I've never had ANY trouble with it at all (though I'm a little conservative doing major OS updates until all my software is ready-to-go).

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