Fat-16 drive will only allow a little over 500 files in one directory

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The number of root directory entries available is set at formatting time, and is stored in a 16-bit signed field setting an absolute limit of 32767 entries (32736, a multiple of 32, in practice). For historical reasons, FAT12 and FAT16 media generally use 512 root directory entries on non-floppy media, and other sizes may be incompatible with some software or devices (entries being file and/or folder names in the old 8.3 format).[9] Some third party tools like mkdosfs allow the user to set this parameter.[10]

Thus, my Fat-16 drive will only allow a little over 500 files in one directory.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=780695