Thread: PRS-505 Format - FAT or FAT32?
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Old 07-07-2011, 11:26 PM   #5
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From Wikipedia:

FAT16 [aka commonly known as FAT]:
"...thereby fixing the "definitive" limit for the FAT16 partition size at 2 gigabytes"

FAT32:
"Cluster values are represented by 32-bit numbers, of which 28 bits are used to hold the cluster number, for a maximum of approximately 268 million (228) clusters. This allows for drive sizes of up to 8 TiB with 32 KiB clusters, but the boot sector uses a 32-bit field for the sector count, limiting volume size to 2 TiB on a hard disk with 512 byte sectors....

...The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GiB minus 1 byte or 4 294 967 295 (232−1) bytes. Video applications, large databases, and some other software easily exceed this limit. Larger files require another filesystem."
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