Media Player and GPT formating

[Kwai chang caine]

Hello at all,

Someone use or have or know a hardware media player who accept an USB big 20TO disk formated in GPT
Because i have buy several of this little box, where it's say "Accept all drives" and impossible to read an avi on it

Have a good day

[Kuron]

AVI is merely a container. It generally depends on what kind of encoding the video has. That said, AVI isn't used very much. I would simply convert the AVI into something more compatible. I bought this one back when it first came out (around 12 years ago) and it is still going strong:

https://www.iogear.com/product/GMD2025U120/

[Kwai chang caine]

Hello KURON

Thanks for your answer
I bad explain my self
I have say AVI, but that can be all the video format

I have buy this box
https://www.amazon.com/Player-Digital-P ... 7&sr=8-100
Normally she can read all the USB drive, but it's not the case
I see the drive, but impossible to see a file and obviously read it
I think it's the fault of the big capacity 20 TO of the drive or the GPT formating, ot both

Like i don't want buy all the amazon store, i ask if someone have the same problem that me and can fix it
Or have this style of reader, who can read this style of drive

[Kuron]

I think it's the fault of the big capacity 20 TO of the drive or the GPT formating, ot both

The specs on that say it only supports the following file systems: FAT16 / FAT32 /NTFS

Personally, I would use NTFS.

It also says it only supports drives up to: 2.5TB

[Kwai chang caine]

Aaaah ! i don't see what you say to me
And yet.... I thought I had read everything

You say you use NTFS...but it's impossible to format a 20 TO in NTFS no ?
I thought NTFS was limited in size

[Kuron]

Aaaah ! i don't see what you say to me
And yet.... I thought I had read everything

You say you use NTFS...but it's impossible to format a 20 TO in NTFS no ?
I thought NTFS was limited in size

You have to scroll down to the bottom (way down there) to where it says Product Description and that is where the formatting info is, although the drive size limitation is up where the pricing is.. It won't handle a 20TB drive, only a 2.5 TB drive.

[Kwai chang caine]

Yes you have right, I have not seen this part of text
i'm a donkey

I'm not wrong, for formatting a 20 TO of drive, i'm forced to use GPT instead of MBR, it's that

[Kuron]

That I can't answer, as I would never use a drive that large, so I do not know. Way too much data to lose if it goes bad, and way too expensive to have a couple of duplicates of the drive. I am sure somebody else can pop in with that answer.

[Kwai chang caine]

You have right, it takes me several days, or even weeks, to back up some of my disks
Because i keep everything that goes through my computer for over 35 years, nearly since i'm baby



Even spam, we never know

That I can't answer,

Never mind, perhaps someone in this forum know that

Thanks for your help and have a good night