500gb external hard drive

bigrash

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what do you think are the pros and cons.

i'm using bootcamp. i use osx most of the time, but i do use my windows partition for stuff like gaming and some other applications. i'll be storing movies, and other media and also image file. is it a good idea to format with hfs+ and use macdrive on the windows partition to access the files?
 

Rilex

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Remember that FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit, so if your media and/or image files are ever going to be more than 4GB, you won't be able to use FAT32.
 

bigrash

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Originally posted by: Rilex
Remember that FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit, so if your media and/or image files are ever going to be more than 4GB, you won't be able to use FAT32.

yeah, that's one of the reason why I decided to stick to hfs.