Do external portable HDD have file size limits?

manoz · 21 Jan 2007 at 01:41

Hi I'm looking into buying a portable harddrive but just wondering if there is a file size limit, I think I remember reading there is a 2gb file size limit, is this true, is there anyway of getting around it?(other then splitting it using winrar). Cheers for the info

Uhtred · 21 Jan 2007 at 01:42

not if you format with ntfs. If you do use ntfs you won't be able to use it with some older os like win 98 and macs etc

Energize · 21 Jan 2007 at 01:56

The file size limit is 16TiB.

SinaiSound · 21 Jan 2007 at 01:57

I've got a 80GB Western Digital Passport, formatted with NTFS.

Stored various images of DVDs on it with no problem.

manoz · 21 Jan 2007 at 02:00

Cool thanks, so all I gota do is format in NTFS. Seems easy enough. Cheers.

(The passport is the one I want, best valu for money imo)

*oh carp, just realised I put it in the wrong section, oh well, got my answer

Uhtred · 21 Jan 2007 at 19:05

well I have my 250gb in FAT32 (yeah I forgot to format when i bought), there lots of huge files over 2 gig on mine, no problems reading / writing at all.

the limit for fat32 is 4 gb