Which file system to choose from when formatting 1.5TB hard drive (hdd)

Posted by MaxiWheat on Super User See other posts from Super User or by MaxiWheat
Published on 2010-01-17T16:22:20Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 8:01 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 261

Filed under:
|
|
|

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 advices ?

© Super User or respective owner

Related posts about hard-drive

Related posts about filesystems