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Title: (Solved)Storage size of Pendrive that could be used with computer
Post by: jraju on December 28, 2014, 03:35:05 am

Hi,
            Would anybody knows the storage size of the Pendrive that could be saved , read, viewed in computer. In other words, can large storage pendrive be read or stored in a computer.
                     Is there any restriction on that ? Please

Title: Re: Storage size of Pendrive that could be used with computer
Post by: Samson on December 28, 2014, 04:11:55 am

Hi jraju,

I don't know if there is any physical limit, but there comes a point where an external HDD is better value per GB. The largest pendrive that I use is 64GB, but I have a couple of WD 500GB external HDDs that I use mostly for backups.

Title: Re: Storage size of Pendrive that could be used with computer
Post by: jraju on December 28, 2014, 04:15:18 am

Hi, Samson,
                        In NTFS format pl

Title: Re: Storage size of Pendrive that could be used with computer
Post by: Samson on December 28, 2014, 04:25:16 am

I don't think that there is any file size limit with NTFS or exFAT, but 4GB is the maximum file size with FAT32.

Title: Re: Storage size of Pendrive that could be used with computer
Post by: jraju on December 28, 2014, 04:27:37 am

Hi,
               Can i change the format to ntfs to store more data than 4 gb in pendrive which normally have fat32 file type

Title: Re: Storage size of Pendrive that could be used with computer
Post by: Samson on December 28, 2014, 04:33:51 am

You can indeed. I formatted my 64GB pendrive to exFAT (it was FAT32) so that I could put files over 4GB on it. I used exFAT as it is supposed to be a bit quicker than NTFS. But either NTFS or exFAT will allow files over 4GB.

Title: Re: Storage size of Pendrive that could be used with computer
Post by: jraju on December 28, 2014, 04:39:06 am

Hi,
             Thank you. One more question not connected with this .
                   i have asked the storage issue because, i want to save all the gmails to my pendrive. I have saved the google mails thro their help tools and i was sent a file "take away this date" and when i tried to save to my computer, the firefox shown unknown time. It is in zip format. Would it be able to open the attachements in those mails saved. I do not want my precious mails to be lost. any idea, Samson

Title: Re: Storage size of Pendrive that could be used with computer
Post by: Samson on December 28, 2014, 04:44:33 am

I don't use Gmail, so can't help you there my friend.

Title: Re: Storage size of Pendrive that could be used with computer
Post by: jraju on December 28, 2014, 04:48:00 am

Hi, It is downloading without any mb size. So I asked. Thanks for your replies

Title: Re: (Solved)Storage size of Pendrive that could be used with computer
Post by: Samson on December 28, 2014, 05:34:08 am

No problem, you are welcome  :smiley: