WD LIVE TV PLUS Hard Drive Format Question

powermac5150 · October 2, 2011, 9:23pm

just purchased a new NAS drive. What format should the hard drive drive be when playing movies connected to a WD LIVE TV PLUS?

TonyPh12345 · October 2, 2011, 9:56pm

It doesn’t matter. The WD doesn’t care what the filesystem of a NAS is.

powermac5150 · October 2, 2011, 10:00pm

Thanks Tony

wdtv007 · October 3, 2011, 7:49pm

It does matter. If you have files over 4GB, you will need to use the NTFS filesystem.

ThePizzaMatrix · October 3, 2011, 11:05pm

wdtv007 wrote:

It does matter. If you have files over 4GB, you will need to use the NTFS filesystem.

That’s for file storage, it has nothing to do with recognition or support, which is what the OP refers.

TonyPh12345 · October 3, 2011, 11:44pm

wdtv007 wrote:

It does matter. If you have files over 4GB, you will need to use the NTFS filesystem.

I’ve never once seen a NAS that doesn’t use NTFS or better… Certainly none that use FAT! :smileyvery-happy:

wdtv007 · October 5, 2011, 3:55am

Whatever. NTFS is the answer.

TonyPh12345 · October 5, 2011, 12:37pm

wdtv007 wrote:

Whatever. NTFS is the answer.

You don’t really know what you’re talking about. That’s just flat untrue. If your NAS supports EXT3 or EXT4 (and most of them do) that is preferable.

EXT3 and EXT4 are significantly faster with SMB and NFS protocols than NTFS (the Hub uses SMB).

EXT3 and EXT4 handle fragmentation much better

EXT3 and EXT4 are both journaled file systems, and are more reliable than NTFS if there’s an unclean shutdown at some time.