Categories: Hard Drives / Storage
I new at using PP, I just purcahsed PP Biz and attached 2TB Samsumg HDD.
The first data I put on I did when it was attached to my PC USB.
It's now attached to my PP, wroks but when I check the drive via de drivelleter whci the PP client assigns it sees it as a FAT32 drive and not a NTFS formatted drive.
When looking under settings it shows that the drive is NTFS formatted.
Why is this? What am I doing wrong?
I cannot drag large files (Iso images) to my PP becasue FTA32 does not support it!?!
Hans
See the post here January 18, 2010
Basically it says....
hi there, even though P: reports itself as FAT32, the format of your drives should still be the same. the reason P: reports FAT32 is for best compatibility with windows software, and it does not reflect the underlying filesystems of your drives. rest assured that as long as your underlying filesystems are NTFS, you should still be able to copy >4GB files to it despite FAT32's limitations. we have verified this in-house.
And that's what I expected too, but when I try to copy a large image file I get the massega that it cannot be copied, is too large for a FAT32 filesystem
The only option thus far has been eject the drive from PP, connect it directly to my PC copy the file and then reconnect it.
The file is then normally accessible but ...
Hans
You can use the web interface to copy the large files. I have no problem "copying" the Iso's. I get this error when I try to "rip" directly to the Pogo drive and end up having to rip to my hard drive the copy to the pogo.
Maybe settings of pp's drivers are set so it virtually understands the hdd as fat32 and if so we need to do somethings with settings.
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Has this been resolved ?
I tried to use my backup/imaging software and point direct to one of my PP HDDs that is NTFS but shows FAT32 in Windows Explorer. The software broke the backup into 4GB chunks.....not what I want. It seems this is a problem that the PP while supporting these format respresents them to the PC O/S as FAT32....this is a problem !!!!!!! The whole reason I bought the PP was for backups and obviously and having to save files to the client PC then use the web interface to upload is not elegant.....in fact a real pain.
Can someone from PP group respond ?....if this is known issue and will be fixed...great....let us know. If not, let us know that too....I'll probably get rid of mine then.
If I remember correctly the PP team response is... FAT32 is used so that the drive is compatable across other platfroms.
The issue is not resolved.
I disconnected the disk and am using it without the PP.
I'm considering selling the PP to a friend, it does not offer me what I expected.
It's a good product, no doubt about that, but not for me.
Thanks and excuse my delay in replying.
Hans
If I remember correctly the PP team response is... FAT32 is used so that the drive is compatable across other platfroms.
That is what I would figure and assume it is in the firmware of the PP.
However, I must say this is a lame excuse.....they could have easily IDed the file type and passed thru. If there was different types and you tried to consolidate to one mapped Drive letter then they could have forced FAT32. Again, I can see why they did it but was clearly an easy way out...I would have expected a little more effort on their part for something so basic an expectation. Like the others.....I will probably sell mine for pennies on the dollar on Craiglist and surely won't recommend. Oddly I had one friend who just asked....going to tell him to go a different direction now....I mean other than USB sticks who would have FAT32 USB HDDs....I mean really.
Big thumbs down to Pogoplug on this.
I have an issue with the FAT32 format related to how it recognizes daylight savings time.
I bought pogo-plug to use as an alternative to Mozy automatic back-up. I have everything on my PC set to auto-sync with a NTFS WD My-book hardrive connected to a pogo-plug at my mother's house.
I am using Good-Sync (paid $30) and the software works great. However, the FAT32 file system doesn't recognize daylight savings time in the same way as NTFS. Because of this my files that are identical look like they all need to be synced because of the 1 hour difference in the "last modified" date.
Because this will happen every 6 months to 250GB of files, it renders my pogo useless.
Any advice on how to get my pogo-plug to show my remote hard drive as NTFS?
Also, I need it to be 2-way sync because i will often drop files to the pogo-plug drive from work and want those files to be automatically dropped back to my home PC.
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