Sean DeMerchant
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Jason Anderson said:Which operating system is used?
Hyper drives dont really use an operating system because they run independent of any computer. It's kind of like a large flash drive if you will.
This is incorrect. Devices of this sort often use two OSes. The first is an embedded OS/microkernel/RTOS like VxWorks and the second is a custom embedded OS layered atop the first which provides the user interface and device specific funtionality.
The fact that the devices are computing devices and that they run independently of a host computer implies they contain an operating system. It is just a custom one.
Jason Anderson said:Where is the OS stored? Flash memory? How large?
Since there is no OS no storage space is taken up. The entire drive is kind of like a flash drive - see above.
Again, incorrect. Some past devices have stored the OS/es on the hard drive itself. With the advent of user replaceable drives the data is likely stored on some internal flash memory or an EEPROM (yes, I know an EEPROM is flash memory but not of the consumer sort).
Since the OS/es exist/s they must be stored somewhere.
Many flash drives use lesser versions of FAT except for the largest. And this device is not a flash drive, it is a hard drive with an embedded OS attached to it to enable its usage without a host computer.Jason Anderson said:Which file system does it use, FAT32? NTFS?
FAT32 - like most flash drives.
enjoy,
Sean (getting the words straight as unlearning "facts" is harder than learning the correct facts)