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This annoy me for a bit. its not a problem now but it will probably be in the future

(i formatted like how the manual says)

mac formatted exfat - works on both systems.
windows formatted exfat - macs says is unreadable.

what the glob?

is there something with the windows 7 formatting thats effin this thing up?

What version of Windows and Mac OS are your working with?

I don't know how to fix it, but I have had that same experience, and I've read that many other people do too. So I just always format drives on a Mac, and everything works. I wish there was a solution though

In windows Try Disk Management, Right click on "Computer" then click Manage,
In Storage>Disk Management find your SSD and format with EXFAT
You may need to do a Full Format.

Darryl Gregory wrote:In windows Try Disk Management, Right click on "Computer" then click Manage,
In Storage>Disk Management find your SSD and format with EXFAT
You may need to do a Full Format.

It is a long time since I have used Windows but if full format means to write to every sector of the SSD then you likely want to avoid that if you can as I understand it is preferable to do the quick format that simply resets the file directory. The rationale is to let the SSD take care of its own data management since it has its own internal controller and it is more complex than we are used to in managing a hard disk.

Rick Lang
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The reason I say "may need to do a Full Format" is I started a full format and canceled it, and Did a quick format and the camera did not recognize the sdd, I had to do a full format at let it complete.

I understand your issue, but I would imagine most folks are one or the other, as far as SSD's going from camera to computer. The SSD is primarily a transfer medium, and you would typically just transfer once, I would think, then make additional copies on the machines. I guess if you had Thunderbolt docks, you might want to use the SSD to transfer twice if you were set up to do that in the field.

Right after dumping the video from the SSD you will want to reformat the SSD (not just delete the files). In Windows you need Windows 7 or above to do anything with ExFAT. I use Win 7 and do a quick format, and the BMCC, which is all I care about, likes it just fine. ExFAT solves my transfer problems.

Darryl Gregory wrote:The reason I say "may need to do a Full Format" is I started a full format and canceled it, and Did a quick format and the camera did not recognize the sdd, I had to do a full format at let it complete.

Understand then the full format may be needed, thanks for the clarification, Darryl.

Rick Lang
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My Mac Pro with OS X 10.7 partitioned and formatted the SSD with exFAT. But the alignment is completely destroyed. An SSD Tool said "1K - Bad". Then I reformatted with Windows 7 and everything was ok.