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brainwave89

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Jul 7, 2006
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I have a Western Digital 1TB Home Edition external hard drive with over 600GB of music that is formatted FAT32. When I click on a song to play in iTunes it takes around 45 - 50 seconds before it plays.

The computer is a iMac that is one year old and has 1GB of RAM.

Do you have any suggestions on why it is so slow?
Would I have been better to format it as HFS as opposed to FAT32?

Thank you for looking.
 
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