Fat vs Fat32

[VRaptor]

I read the reformat guide and saw that if your player is greater than 2g you need to format to fat32. I was wondering if their would be any advantage to formatting a 2g player to fat32. Any disasvantages? Faster file access by using the better file system maybe? Thanks

[tadad1]

In most cases 2GB players will function no differently using Fat or Fat32 format however I do have one player that will not read any files when formated in Fat32 but this is rare. Fat32 file system will take up slightly more space (about 1MB).

[VRaptor]

Thanks for the reply.I did think of one other advantage after I posted. If I remember correctly Fat divides memory into 32 kb chunks while fat32 divides memory into 8 kb chunks.So a one kb file in fat takes up 32kb of space and a one kb file in fat32 takes up 8 kb. Depending on the size of files you can potentional save more to a fat 32 than you can to a fat file system.

[lattesurf]

VRaptor , basically what you mentioned was true. FAT32 are recommended for larger files like videos. As they tend to occupy lesser clusters (i think) due to the 32KB and 8KB thing you mentioned, than as compared to FAT16.

[admin]

Also FAT32 can cater for larger hard drives. FAT has a limition of only 2GB in size partitions.