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Portable wifi storage question.
Sniffle774
19-05-2014
Hello, looking at a portable wifi storage option to load some movies on ahead of the holidays and I was looking at these two listed on Amazon.

Transcend 64gb and Kingston Technology 64GB .

Both are in the price range I was happy to spend but I did notice that on the later it points out....

Quote:
“* Wi-Drive is formatted in FAT32 so the file size limit is 4GB. Please check the user guide of your mobile device for a full list of supported files. For Android and Kindle Fire, video support is limited to 2GB.”

However not on the former. So my question is does the absence of that point on the former mean it's not an consideration or that this will be the case on all of of them but just pointed out on one. A limit of 2gb does seem rather small for a HD movie was my concern.
psionic
19-05-2014
Depends on how it was ripped/encoded, but 2GB is usually fine for HD. Most of mine are about 1.7 / 1.8 GB.
Sniffle774
20-05-2014
Originally Posted by psionic:
“Depends on how it was ripped/encoded, but 2GB is usually fine for HD. Most of mine are about 1.7 / 1.8 GB.”

Ah I see. So this is what I need to be looking at really then, how the files are encoded. I have some HD movies on the PC and they are all bigger then 2gb. So it is possible to 'shrink' them down or are we talking about getting them from source in a smaller size....if that makes sense.
psionic
20-05-2014
Originally Posted by Sniffle774:
“Ah I see. So this is what I need to be looking at really then, how the files are encoded. I have some HD movies on the PC and they are all bigger then 2gb. So it is possible to 'shrink' them down or are we talking about getting them from source in a smaller size....if that makes sense.”

Quicker to get them again, if you can. It's very time consuming to try and shrink them.
oilman
29-05-2014
If you are connecting to a windows PC to watch you could reformat in NTFS which does not have 4 GB limit.

If watching on a media box or smart TV you would have to stick with fat32 most likely.
c4rv
30-05-2014
You could use NTFS and quite a few devices now recognise it, however mac's can't write to NTFS without extra software.

Alternative would be exFAT which both Windows and mac can read/write but other devices may not.
Sniffle774
01-06-2014
Thanks guys, it's mainly to be used with family's tablets so a mix of Android and iOS.
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