This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Todays delivery spec, "We don't need no stinking drives!!!!!"

Monday, July 8, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Todays delivery spec, "We don't need no stinking drives!!!!!"

Good post Dom. Really good.

On Jul 8, 2013, at 10:02 AM, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@gmail.com> wrote:

> ExFAT works great for quick cross platform transfer. The big downside
> compared to NTFS and HFS+ is the File Allocation Table has no backup copy.
> This means if the FAT is corrupted it is unlikely you will be able to run a
> disk repair to recover the data. So don't use it for large drives
> containing the only copy of your media. Best used for external drives that
> is being transported from point A to B and it is expendable.
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> Dom Q. Silverio
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> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:20 PM, davidjzimmerly
> <djz@affinityproductions.tv>wrote:
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> > Certainly for use as cross-platform taxi drives, ExFAT works great. I
> > probably wouldn't want to do a whole lot of work right on an ExFAT drive on
> > a Mac, but it's an awesome bridge to and from the Windows world.
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> > David (posting for the first time in a VERY long time)
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> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Bogdan Grigorescu <bogdan_grigorescu@...>
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> > > The common, crossplatform, format that eliminates the 4GB limitation
> > you've mentioned is ExFAT. Read/write on both Mac and PC at the OS level.
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> > > Pretty widespread today...
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> > > cheers,
> > > BG
> > > www.finale.tv
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> > > --- On Mon, 7/8/13, oliverpetersvidy <oliverpeters@...> wrote:
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> > > From: oliverpetersvidy <oliverpeters@...>
> > > Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Todays delivery spec, "We don't need no stinking
> > drives!!!!!"
> > > To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> > > Date: Monday, July 8, 2013, 5:21 AM
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> > > The issue with large files on thumb drives is the Fat32 formatting
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