Sunday, November 22, 2015

hard drive - Which file system to choose from when formatting 1.5TB HDD?


I plan to buy a 1.5TB hard drive soon. I would like to know which file system to choose from when I'm gonna format it.


With FAT32, there is a limitation concerning the maximum file size (4GB) that bugs me since I might save large files such as DVD images which are over 4GB. On the other hand, NTFS allows me to save larger files, but seems less compatible with other OS than Windows and is also proprietary to Microsoft.


Are there other alternatives ?


Can you give me your advice ?


Answer



I chose NTFS when I reformatted mine. Sure, it's windows-centric, but everything can read from it, and most things can write to it, and it's a fairly good filesystem - unlike the decidedly aged FAT32 that I would not use for a large drive, mainly because of the 4gb max file limit.


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