[DM-MUG] Backup drive decision

[kristau]

On 7/30/07, CMSSpace at aol.com <CMSSpace at aol.com> wrote:
> OK, this is a strange problem I'm having with this drive.  I'm trying to
> copy movie data over to the new backup drive.  It gives me an error code
> -36.  It's acting like the drive is full.  Would this be due to the FAT32
> for DOS?  It shows that I have about 337GB left on the drive.

Unless you will need to access the drive from a Windows system
(unfortunately, many of us do need that functionality), you should
definitely reformat the drive to HFS+.

If you do need to use it under both Windows and Mac, you have a few
choices.  A cursory search on google shows it is easier to access HFS+
volumes under Windows than it is to access NTFS (the best native
Windows file system for large files) on a Mac.

FAT32 is the lowest common denominator, so that's why most drives are
pre-formatted with it.  Mac, Linux and WIndows can access it, but it
has some serious limitations.

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