usb hard drive

Camalot · 13 Apr 2013 at 17:25

Hi guys,

Im after a big USB hard drive that I can put movie files onto and take it to my blue ray player in other room.

What's the best ? Don't want to spend a lot. I have a USB stick for the smaller files but it just crashes when using bigger files!

Cheers.

yashiro · 14 Apr 2013 at 04:13

You know that FAT32 formatted drives can't hold files greater than 4GB, right?

You will need to find out if your blu ray player supports other filesystems (exfat/ntfs/ext3) or you will be limited to 4GB files anyway.

Camalot · 14 Apr 2013 at 09:34

My player reads FAT32 and NTFS.

My current USB stick is formatted to NTFS also and it ready that.

My player is a Sony BDV - E280.

Scotteh · 14 Apr 2013 at 12:41

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-279-SE (assuming it's 1tb, as description says 500gb where as title says 1tb..)

There's also the WD Passport drives, so about £95 for 1.5TB, £110 for 2TB

If you were able to plug it in with AC Adapter then you could get 2TB for £83, 3TB for £105

Camalot · 14 Apr 2013 at 12:53

How's this one?

500gb is plenty for me.

Scotteh · 14 Apr 2013 at 12:58

Yeah that would be fine.

Camalot · 14 Apr 2013 at 15:52

Thanks