I got some files on an exFAT drive - can i work with this ?

I've just been given a drive with media i need for a doco
there's a bit over 5TB of ProresLT - this is a big doco!
I already have 6TB of media on another drive - this one formatted MacOS Extended, what I'm used to working with.
I'll be accessing media off both drives constantly.

will I be able to work with the new exFAT drive?
what sort of problems might i expect ?

ok - I've just spotted on" I can't do a finder search on this drive, thats already a problem for me


thanks,
nick

Nick,
I can't replicate your problem. Finder is happy with an EXFAT volume. I tried this on both an MBR and a GUID partitioned hard drive.
Maybe your problem is OS dependent. I only tried Lion.

Also quite high data rate .mov files on the EXFAT volume seem to play as well as when on a HFS+ volume.

Dennis Couzin
Berlin, Germany

Hi Dennis,
i think my problem was perhaps due to the drive not being catalogued on my system at the time??
not sure, but it is working now.

thanks for your input,
nick