1TB External Harddrive

**Stormeah** · 02-24-2011,11:56 PM

Just got a 1TB drive, should I Format the whole thing to fat32 or just a partition, how much slower is it?

**abbadon7** · 02-24-2011,11:58 PM

I dont think its slower i think fat32 is just restricted to files smaller thean 4gb

**catzilla** · 02-25-2011,12:14 AM

im using a 1.5TB ext formatted to Fat32 works fine. Its only slow when Multiman's indexing all the games on yr ext hdd assuming 1.5TB full of games. If yr concerned about loading, not much diff at all.

**superior.pokez** · 02-25-2011,07:01 AM

i dont think fat ever was designed with terabyte space in mind. ethically i propose it unhealthy. go with 50% fat 32, 50 % NTFS.

**bitsbubba** · 02-25-2011,07:12 AM

PS3 only sees 1st partition, I have a 1TB fat32 format 1 partition no problem here

**lukascene** · 02-25-2011,06:04 PM

I`ve used WD Green 1TB internal, no problems with FAT32.

**Lance989** · 02-26-2011,11:50 AM

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if your having problems formatting it

**psnplay** · 02-26-2011,07:22 PM

Using a FAT32 on 1 terabyte disc does not slow it down in any way or form. And yes, it works just fine with PS3 and MultiMan.

But using FAT32 on such a large disc wastes several hundreds of megabytes due to format overhead and it is a poor choice for such a large disc. Unfortunately if you plan to play your backups from the external drive that is also your only choice. If you however always copy your backups from external to internal before playing and won't be playing directly from USB then NTFS would be the best choice.

**Szabby** · 03-04-2011,04:09 PM

WOW

Just formatted my 500GB External in FAT32.
Ended up with a WHOPPIN' 128GB drive!! Nice!!!
All this because my 160GB internal is full......this is sooo lame.....

**chesh** · 03-04-2011,04:10 PM

Originally Posted by Szabby

WOW

Just formatted my 500GB External in FAT32.
Ended up with a WHOPPIN' 128GB drive!! Nice!!!
All this because my 160GB internal is full......this is sooo lame.....

It's because you used a tool that doesn't support full disk filesystems as FAT32. Google fat32format and reformat that drive.

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