Quote Originally Posted by stirling View Post
But that's not the answer to your question - he may *say* it BUFFERS but that's exactly what it isn't doing. Buffering means that rather than loading ALL the data from the stick to internal memory and then running it (what they call "internal"), BUFFERING (in this context) means it should load "some amount" from the stick to internal memory and then as it works through it it loads more as needed until the job is done (what they call "external").
Yes, thanks stirling, that's what I should have said had I engaged my brain better, buffering is what you said and it does allow memory in the pendant to be less as it's moving the file in smaller blocks.