Fat32 DOES NOT have a 32gig limit. It’s physical limit is much much higher. The 32gb cap is not a limit of the filesystem, but a limit placed on it by Microsoft. Every single Operating system out there ca format and create Fat32 file systems at virtually any size you want. However Microsot wants people to use their proprietary NTFS file system for anything larger then 32gigs. So of course they don’t give you the choice. Granted NTFS is better then FAT32, in many ways, it lacks MAJOR feature. The ability to move it from computer to computer and share it across different operating systems. And since MS won’t share how NTFS works, you have virtually no support on other Platforms, Mac, Linux, etc.

Thankfully Microsoft does not prevent you from ACCESSING fat32 drives formated above 32gigs, they only prevent you from creating them. A Drive formated in any non-Microsoft OS, or with a 3rd party disk management utility will break right past that Microsoft imposed limit.

For those that need to create external USB or flash (WOW) drives larger then 32gigs. Virtually ANY Linux Live CD. (http://www.distrowatch.com), like knoppix, or Suse live, will allow you to boot into Linux (without touching your windows drive at all). Plug in your device, and reformat it as Fat32, 500gb if you so desire, no 32gig cap. Then unplug your drive, take out cd, reboot and your done. There are some 3rd party utils to allow you to do this inside windows, but I think they all cost $$$. Where the Linux Live CD just costs you the time for d/l and the cost of a blank cd.

bquin wrote:

Can it copy from the hard drive to the card?

Good question. When a USB cable connects the Vosonic VP3320 drive to a computer, the hard drive acts as an external USB drive and the card slots behave just like any USB card reader. You can easily copy data from the hard drive in the unit to a card in one of the card slots or vice versa.

I failed to mention the USB functionality of the card slots in my review. Both card slots (one Compact Flash and the other multi-format) are automatically mapped to separate drive letters.

thanks for a good review…

http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/review/vosonic_vp3320_xs_drive

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