onebyside Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 Ok, so you're right up against the limits. I would not be surprised if it takes an utterly ridiculous amount of time to index it the first time around -- but I'll bet it is not hung. What is the limit, I put about 900 gb of music and video files on a 2 tb wd passport drive(NTFS)... it took 6.5 hrs to index, I got to play 1 song and it went back to re-indexing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tim98TA Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 How is everyone formatting the 128gb+ hard drives over to Fat32? I have tried a few different ways but nothing is working. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tim98TA Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 OK, so I got the hard drive to format to FAT32.Plugged it in to my 8100 3.5 hours ago. It still says "Format Read". How long should this take? I only have about 3000 songs on a 128GB drive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tim98TA Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 It was still reading format after about 6 hours so I stopped it. Came in and hooked up hard drive to pc. PC will not even read it. It says it is corrupt. I am reformatting it to NTFS and will put a few songs on there to try it. Anybody have any tips and/or suggestions? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkside59 Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 I use a 120GB SSD on my 4000 and it works fine. Format it in FAT32, however, because you can sort a FAT32 drive -- you CANNOT sort a NTFS one, and Pioneer brain-farted on this particular aspect of things when going through things by artist and album in "file" mode. I got a WD 500GB USB3 HDD. I have to format it to FAT32. Max capacity for FAT32 is 30GB to be exact. So instead of waste disk space. I have mutiple partition on my HDD. Partition 1(30GB) for all my music and the rest for my junk like videos, pictures, files, etc. Soon I will upgrade to a SSD Drive. Spinning Disk seek time is too slow. Usually takes my AVH-x4600BT up to 5mins if I switch to Music to Photo so I avoid doing that at all cost. LoL.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tim98TA Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 I have been using a 128GB SSD. Works fine except that it will not let you 'REV' to a previous song. It will only allow you to FFD to the next song. Is anybody else running into that with a SSD? How did you fix if, if you could? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joemamma1954 Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 I got a WD 500GB USB3 HDD. I have to format it to FAT32. Max capacity for FAT32 is 30GB to be exact. So instead of waste disk space. I have mutiple partition on my HDD. Partition 1(30GB) for all my music and the rest for my junk like videos, pictures, files, etc. Soon I will upgrade to a SSD Drive. Spinning Disk seek time is too slow. Usually takes my AVH-x4600BT up to 5mins if I switch to Music to Photo so I avoid doing that at all cost. LoL.. max capacity for fat32 is not 30gb. My 480gb intel ssd, 256gb samsung ssd, 128gb sdcard are all fat32. They all have been working for a year now in my 4000nex. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tim98TA Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 max capacity for fat32 is not 30gb. My 480gb intel ssd, 256gb samsung ssd, 128gb sdcard are all fat32. They all have been working for a year now in my 4000nex. Couldn't get my 128GB SSD to format to Fat32. Of course, I'm not going to buy any software just to get it to work either. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joemamma1954 Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 Couldn't get my 128GB SSD to format to Fat32. Of course, I'm not going to buy any software just to get it to work either. I used my mac-mini and no special software. Also the sdcard is 256gb, PNY. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Adrianh85 Posted August 18, 2015 Report Share Posted August 18, 2015 max capacity for fat32 is not 30gb. My 480gb intel ssd, 256gb samsung ssd, 128gb sdcard are all fat32. They all have been working for a year now in my 4000nex. Fat32 has a Soft limit of 32GB per volume/partition in Windows based systems but can be surpassed buy 3rd party software. If you are using a Windows based Computer its hard to believe windows allowed you to format a 480GB, 256GB and 128GB Drives using Fat32... Using the standard formatting tool it shouldn't even be a option. I wouldn't be surprised if the drive was actually formatted NTFS Because that the default setting for drive of that size unless you are using MAC or Linux. Either way the file allocation is very easily corrupted using FAT32, NTFS is the best option for Newer AVIC HU's that support it... Couldn't get my 128GB SSD to format to Fat32. Of course, I'm not going to buy any software just to get it to work either. Doesn't surprise me at all..... But honestly NTFS is a way better File system, Its faster and a lot more reliable then FAT32... Shit exFAT is even better then FAT32 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joemamma1954 Posted August 18, 2015 Report Share Posted August 18, 2015 I format my drives using Mac drive utility, and format fat32. I realize NTFS is faster and on my Windows PC, that is what I use. NEX will not read xfat, and fat32 works better for me on the NEX. I originally used NTFS, but I switched because the way it categorized or something, can't remember exactly why. Either way, all my storage hooked up to my NEX is fat32, and never have any problems. If xfat was supported, then NEX would support larger SDCards than 32gb. It does not really matter if NTFS is faster, when USB 2.0 is the bottle neck. Anyway to each his own, someone asks me what works for me, I tell them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Adrianh85 Posted August 28, 2015 Report Share Posted August 28, 2015 I format my drives using Mac drive utility, and format fat32. I realize NTFS is faster and on my Windows PC, that is what I use. NEX will not read xfat, and fat32 works better for me on the NEX. I originally used NTFS, but I switched because the way it categorized or something, can't remember exactly why. Either way, all my storage hooked up to my NEX is fat32, and never have any problems. If xfat was supported, then NEX would support larger SDCards than 32gb. It does not really matter if NTFS is faster, when USB 2.0 is the bottle neck. Anyway to each his own, someone asks me what works for me, I tell them. Honestly with the low bandwidth needed for music and video on the 8100 you should never see the USB 2.0 bottleneck... I am in the process of testing out a quad channel Thumb drive and see if they sell quad channel SD cards.... With this Read speeds would x4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rivelino Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 I think this problem should be solved by Pionner immediately. It's ridiculous. I had on my old car one CD Player from Pioneer from 2009. It has a SD slot and it starts playing last song immediately after I start the car. Now I've an AVIC-5000NEX and I waited more than 5 minutes and it didn't start to play the song. There is no meaning on this. It doesn't matter how fast is you SD card or your USB drive or how it is formatted. The problem is the software from Pioneer. I tried the same ammount of music on my Asus Zenfone 2 in a Micro SD card and it plays immediately after it's started. It's the same files, the same operating system. So the only problem is the Pioneer software. I think we have do send a lot of messagens to Pionner's support and requiring a solution. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
onebyside Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 Well my 8000 with a 128gb ssd doesnt take 5 mins to play. Perhaps after loading the ssd it will take mins to index. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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