Leopard and XP Pro - 200GB Data Partition - Need Files >4GB - What FS?

[DripDrown]

I am just about to re-partition my 300gb SATA harddrive and have just one last hurdle to figure out before I install Leopard 10.5.2 on my desktop.

I plan on 50GB NTFS for XP Pro install

50GB for Leopard (cannot be GUID because of XP Pro 32bit, correct?)

200GB Data Partition - but what file system?

 

I deal with quite a few files that are bigger than 4gb so I cannot use FAT32 (audio tracking/mixing/editting and video editting). I don't think OSX can write directly to an NTFS file system so that is out. The last time I tried MacDrive to enable XP to read and write on a Mac Formatted disk it was painfully slow (especially working with large files).

 

So what is my best solution?

 

Sorry if this is a newb question, but every thread I have found when searching had FAT32 as the answer.

 

I have even looked at NAS enclosures to put the 300gb harddrive on the net and run a SAMBA server, but most of those require FAT32 formatted discs so I am no closer to a solution.

 

This is my first time trying to make my data cross platform compatible and it isn't nearly as easy as I thought it would be.

 

 

Thanks,

Pete

[Donk]

Well MacFUSE works well on NTFS these days, but I still prefer MacDrive and an HFS+ partition for data. I run large VMware guests from it without any particular performance issues. (Actually I have 2 identical Iomega eGO drives usng on USB 2, one NTFS and the other HFS+, and can't really see a difference.) I have stayed with MacDrive 6 for now, although I do a have a copy of 7. Currently running Windows XP Pro + SP3.

[DripDrown]

Thanks for the info.

 

It sounds like Macdrive has improved since I last tried it.