Freecom Technologies XS 3.0 user manual General information, File System features

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Freecom Hard Drive XS 3.0

Chapter 3: Partitioning your Freecom Hard Drive XS 3.0

3.1 General information

Your Freecom Hard Drive XS 3.0 was partitioned and formatted to provide you with the maximum available capacity and compatibility. FAT32 was chosen as file system to assure that you will be able to read your files on any PC. It is recommended not to change the current configuration of your Freecom Hard Drive XS 3.0.

For some users another file system might fit better for their needs. This manual describes current limitations of most common file systems and Instructions to enable you to adapt the Freecom Hard Drive XS 3.0 to your needs.

3.2 File System features

Please refer to the tables below for an overview:

File systems supported by different operating systems

File system

FAT

FAT32

NTFS

HFS+

Operating system

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Windows XP/Vista/7

yes

yes

yes

no

 

 

 

 

 

Mac OS X

yes

yes

yes (only read)

yes

Maximum size of a partition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

File system

FAT

FAT32

NTFS

HFS+

Operating system

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Windows XP/Vista/7

4 GB*

32 GB

16 TB

-

 

 

 

 

 

Mac OS X 10.1.x

-

128 GB

-

2 TB

 

 

 

 

 

Mac OS X 10.2.x

-

128 GB

-

8 TB

Mac OS X 10.3.x

-

( -> 128 GB)

-

16 TB

 

 

 

 

 

Mac OS X 10.4.x

-

( -> 128 GB)

-

16 TB

 

 

 

 

 

Mac OS X 10.5.x

-

( -> 128 GB)

-

16 TB

Mac OS X 10.6.x

-

( -> 128 GB)

-

16 TB

 

 

 

 

 



* FAT partitions larger than 2 GB can only be administrated by Windows XP/Vista/7.

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