We found this out when we plugged in a 3TB WD Elements ( Amazon) hard drive into a 32-inch Samsung LCD TV and found it couldn’t be read. What's more, if you plug a GPT-based drive into a TV, it might show up as being recognised by the TV, but it will not be able to display any of the information that you may have previously put onto it. It's one of those things that's very dependent on the brand and model involved. However, this very same partitioning format may not be recognised by your TV. GPT allows the entire capacity of the drive to be usable on a computer system. Most modern TVs most likely support both FAT32 and NTFS, but older TVs might only allow FAT32.Regardless of their size, many new external hard and SSD drives usually rely on a partitioning format called GUID Partition Table (GPT). Read manual of your TV to find out supported file formats. But if you have a bigger device - usually 4TB+, chances are that you need to power it to external power source while it’s plugged in to one of the USB ports of your TV. Most flash drives and smaller external USB drives are self-powered or rather are powered by their host devices in this case your TV. Also check if your USB storage device is self-powered or needs external power supply. That’s easy to find out simply check at the back or sides of your flat screen TV to check for the USB ports.
Now, to watch movies or listen to music on your TV via USB Flash Disk or External HDD, your smart TV or flat TV screen must of course have one or more USB ports. Read more: exFAT, FAT32 or NTFS: Which one should you use to format your USB Flash disk? So if you have many Full HD movies, you definitely want to store them in an NTFS-formatted external Hard drive. Also NTFS supports hard drives of up-to 256TB while FAT 32 supports volume size of upto 2TB. The difference is that NTFS supports bigger file sizes - 16TB to be specific while FAT32 supports a maximum file size of 4GB. You can choose FAT32 or NTFS.įAT32 and NTFS file system are similar in that they are both by Microsoft. To format your flash disk or external USB drive in FAT32 or NTFS, simply plug it in, go to My computer > right click > choose Format > select File system from drop down.
Formatting flask disk or hard drive to play on TV That’s the file system your Windows computer Hard drive ships with by default. If you have a bigger external USB hard drive, chances are that it’s already formatted in Microsoft’s NTFS file system.
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