Vantec NexStar NAS Enclosures - Writing large files

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Published on 2010-06-09T01:36:49Z Indexed on 2012/07/11 3:18 UTC
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I have one of these 'Vantec NexStar LX - NST-475LX-BK' drive enclosures. It is a NAS device.

When I write a file to the device using eSata, or a SMB share I cannot write files over 4GB. I think this is because the drive is formatted with FAT32.

But when I access the device using FTP it doesn't matter. I can write files of any size. E.g. I wrote one on there last night which was 30GB.

Does this make any sense? Why? I guess the most important thing for me is data integrity.

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