Which file system should you choose?

Your sister is taking a video editing class at school. She purchased a 2-TB USB hard drive to store
video files. She wants to connect it to her Windows 8.1 computer at home and to a Mac OSX 10.3
computer at school. Video file will exceed 5 GB in size.
You need to prepare a new hard drive by formatting it with the appropriate file system.
Which file system should you choose?

Your sister is taking a video editing class at school. She purchased a 2-TB USB hard drive to store
video files. She wants to connect it to her Windows 8.1 computer at home and to a Mac OSX 10.3
computer at school. Video file will exceed 5 GB in size.
You need to prepare a new hard drive by formatting it with the appropriate file system.
Which file system should you choose?

A.
FAT

B.
ReFS

C.
NTFS

D.
FAT32

Explanation:
Mac OSX 10.3 supports NTFS.
NTFS supports large files well above 5 GB.
Incorrect answers:
Not A: FAT does not support a 5 GB file size.
Not B: ReFS is only supported by Microsoft Windows.
Not C:
Not D: FAT32 works fine if file sizes are smaller than 4GB.



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