Any limit on external hard drive for a TV

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Is there any limit on the external hard drive that you want to use it with a LED tv?I mean is there any limit that you are supposed to use not more than 1 TB hard drive or something?I use a LG 42LB5610.
 
AFAIK, it depends on the file system supported. I would wager that 1 TB should work fine, 2 TB - you can take your chances.
 
BTW what should be the ideal File system format? I know default is FAT32 supportive but does it supports ntfs or exfat?
And can we create a partition or two on the drive and select the recording partition from the setop box menu?

Asking out of curiosity.
 
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Is there any limit on the external hard drive that you want to use it with a LED tv?I mean is there any limit that you are supposed to use not more than 1 TB hard drive or something?I use a LG 42LB5610.
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2TB. Larger requires different partitioning and the firmware in the tv won't read it.

The filesystem in this case is NTFS. Can your tv read ntfs ?

If not then the drive has to be reformatted to fat 32. Everything reads fat32.

What is the limit here ? on windows no larger than 32GB can be formatted but with 3rd party utils you can format much larger than 32GB in FAT32 up to 2 TB which is the max parition size of fat32.

Course there is a max file size limitation with fat32 of 4 GB which isn't there with ntfs.
 
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