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Preferred Filesystem

By IntrusDave · Jan 10, 2015in NEX Series💬 5 posts👁️ 1,082 views
Posted Jan 10, 2015 · 16:42 UTC#1

Other than NTFS's advantage of larger than 4GB file sizes, what is the preferred filesystem for the NEX units? 

Does FAT32 or NTFS offer any advantages with our units? Maybe one is faster?

 

Thanks

Posted Jan 11, 2015 · 06:19 UTC#2

The only files that are going to be over 4 gb, are video files, and the NEX will not play anything over 4 gb anyway. The fat32 is how all my drives, cards etc are formatted. I can not remember why i changed from NTFS, but it had to do something with categorizing the files, or resuming where left off. I first tried NTFS and had an issue, and since changed. I don't think either is faster than the other.

Posted Jan 14, 2015 · 15:16 UTC#3

I actually believe Pioneer states you must use fat32...which surprised me.

Posted Jan 14, 2015 · 18:06 UTC#4

I actually believe Pioneer states you must use fat32...which surprised me.

The operation manual lists file system: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS.

Posted Jan 15, 2015 · 15:08 UTC#5

jhren, sure enough...I had to look for myself.  My information didn't come from the manual though.  It came from the website.  I can't recall exactly where, but it was specific to FAT32 only.  I'll have to find it again.