ExFAT – ProDrive woes…

[David Roth weiss]

[tad newberry] “i don’t get it…so why would i want FAT-32 if it won’t take anything over 4GB?”

FAT32 is an ancient disk format (cavemen used it thousands of years ago) that was written when the largest disk drives available were 2Gb (okay, it was really the 1980’s). So, bumping up against the 4Gb file size limitation was completely out of the realm of imagination at the time.

Later, when drives and file sizes grew larger, the NTFS drive format broke the 4Gb file size barrier. However, NTFS was never fully Mac compatible (by design of Bill Gates), so FAT32 has remained the only disk format that is completely compatible with both Mac and Windows systems. However, it still has the file size limitation, which makes it imperfect today since we routinely deal with even simple files that far exceed 4Gb.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

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[Tad Newberry]

one last question (maybe…) do i use Win NT compressed or not compressed in Disk Utility?

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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