Big bonus on hard drive

[TheForce]

So, Don - will you post that HDD info from your BIOS screen ?

Not sure I understand the point of your question, but the drive is as shown in the screen cap (just for you) and the drive label is a little sticker on the bottom
that has model # WD5000H1B00 in microtype plus barcode and S/N

 

[Smith P.]

Then, you shouldn't be surprized - IT IS 500 GB disk ! SO, that prick knew it.

 

[TheForce]

I was only surprised because the carton was stating 320 in the print and the price was accordingly. The surprise was when I plugged it in and saw the larger capacity, first on PnP and later again when I reformatted to NTFS. It was the only one on the shelf and it was in an Orange box, not a green and black one like the other My Book drives. I'm using it as a sneaker net drive between my two edit suites. It is on it's second round of work where I fill it out and then dump it to archive (internal formfactor) drives for storage.

 

[waltinvt]

Semi-relevent side question: Is there an advantage to reformatting it to NTFS ?

I have a WD My Book 250GB that also came as Fat 32 and I left it that way (probably because I don't know any better).

 

[Smith P.]

It depend of OS what you're using. For MS NT 4.0 and up the NTFS have more advantages (jurnaling, etc - check Wiki) then FAT.

 

[waltinvt]

It depend of OS what you're using. For MS NT 4.0 and up the NTFS have more advantages (jurnaling, etc - check Wiki) then FAT.

Is there any way to change format from Fat to NTFS without wiping out everything?

 

[mike123abc]

Is there any way to change format from Fat to NTFS without wiping out everything?

yes

convert drive: /fs:ntfs

How to convert a FAT16 volume or a FAT32 volume to an NTFS file system in Windows XP

 

[TheForce]

The reason why hard drives are sold as FAT32 is because of the MAC OS. FAT 32 is recognized by both Macs and PC's having the widest plug n play compatibility. I keep one drive here FAT 32 so I can plug it in and access the media files on both the PC and the MAC.

 

[Foxbat]

Don had a thread about this earlier: The Mac OSX will read NTFS out-of-the-box, but not write to it. Leaving the drive FAT32 allows PC and Mac machines to interchange files between systems. The big issue is with large files (AV captures/projects) that exceed the 4GB single file limit for FAT32.

Gigabit Ethernet and mapping a R/W share to the PC from the Mac should take care of that, but it's off-topic...

I don't know if Don can check the original packaging for the Part & S/N vs. what is on the drive itself. At this point, it's more to satisfy our morbid curiosities more than anything else...