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Understanding file systems for formatting hard
disks
Reiser
The HP Media Vault comes with a primary hard disk
called SYSTEM. The SYSTEM disk is formatted into a
proprietary
Linux
file system
(a modified form of
ReiserFS
).
Formatting a second internal hard
disk into the proprietary Linux file system gives you the best read/write
performance. However, a Linux
-
formatted hard disk on the media vault cannot be
disconnected and used in a
different computer
—
even a Linux computer. You can
only read and write data to the media vault
’
s hard drive
when its connected to
the media vault.
FAT32
The
FAT32
file system allows you to read and write to the hard disk. Microsoft used
this file system for Windows
versions 95, 98, 98SE and ME. Files on FAT32 disks cannot be larger than 4
GB. If you format a media vault
hard disk in FAT32, you can disconnect the disk
and use it on Windows, Macintosh and Linux computers.
However, you cannot store
files larger than 4GB on FAT32 file systems.
NTFS
You cannot format a media vault hard disk in the
New Technology File System (
NTFS
) format. Microsoft
replaced the FAT32 file
system with NTFS for Windows NT, 2000, XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows
Vista. If you
import a hard drive formatted in NTFS to the media vault, you will only be able
to read content
from the disk, not write to it.