Can you format it to NTFS to take files >4gb ?
489004
Yes, you certainly can but I have to wonder why you would want to. ex-fat is a proprietary Microsoft file system optimized specifically for USB drives larger than 32GB.
489005
It comes formatted in ExFat so you can use files greater than 4GB out of the box. You can format it to NTFS if you like or have devices that aren't compatible with ExFat.
489006
It is best to format USB flash drives as exFAT to be able to save files >4GB.
489007
Yes, I just did it a few minutes ago. The file was 7.67gb, took about 2 minutes and 40 seconds to copy. I got mine for $39.99 before Christmas, wish I had bought a couple more! Great and fast drive!
2054819
Yes, it comes from the factory formatted with FAT32 but you can reformat it with NTFS if desired or most any other system.
710861
The drive can only be formatted in FAT32, so the size of the file determines if it can be stored on the drive. If you are looking at files over 4Gb, it wont work.
348940
Don't own this particular disk, but the support for large files is unrelated with the disk itself. It is a limitation of the file system used on it, so if you format the drive as FAT, then it will have an upper limit on file sizes of 4gb. There are other file systems which support bigger files, such as NTFS (or HFS+ in case you're using a Mac). But do notice that FAT is still the most widely supported format, so some devices might have issue reading from a NTFS disk.
1185573
Yes you can, it might take a while if you are backing up a lot of files,just be patient.
900003
Edward, if you format the drive as NTFS, you would only be able to view its contents on a Mac. Writing to the drive would not be possible.
135684
Yes--but you will need to use Disk Utility to reformat it. Takes just a couple of minutes.
1712093
I haven't yet tried a 4TB drive, but I have used a 3TB drive with NTFS formatting with no problems.
342169
If it didn't accept a size that was bigger that would mean that it came formatted to FAT32, and it would need to be formatted to NTFS, the only downside of NTFS being that if you pull it out without safely removing, there is a bigger chance of corruption. To reformat it to NTFS just look up some guide on google.
101637
If you reformat the drive you'll erase all the present data on it. If it's a brand new drive, just format it for FAT32 and both -Win7 and OS X- can read it. As to the file size limit, there is none.
673936
Most USB devices are formatted FAT32 which only allows 2^32-1 bytes of data (4GB roughly speaking).To overcome this you'd have to format it in a file system that allows larger than 4GB files (like NTFS) or put the file into a spanning compressed file.
1179299
yes, you can't format it to FAT32 it must be formatted to NTFS - there is a dropdown menu and that option is there when you format the drive.
609320
FAT32 can create files 4GB or smaller. NTFS became standard with Windows 2000 and is used by XP and I'm sure Vista will use it. So unless you don't need to store files that are 4gb or more in size you probably dont need to worry about it. Personally I do a lot with video creation and saving uncompressed videos can get huge with only minutes of footage, so its useful for me.
1375822
You can format it as you wish. Put NTFS, because FAT32 limits the file size to below 4 GB which is fairly useless and negates the real strong point of this stick - lightening and moving huge fils around...
1907285
I am unfamiliar with NTFS. What would an example of that be? I'd be happy to help with more information.
1819096
Both NTFS and Fat 32 formatted discs or USB sticks are supported. Cheers! Marty G
119875
Yes, you can reformat this card as NTFS. It will come shipped with exFAT formatting.