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facialfreak · 09-11-2011, 01:39 AM

You need to put a little bit of forethought into how you will be using this drive.

Being an external (read: portable) drive, if you format it as NTFS, you can read its contents from both
Mac OR Windows computers ... Meaning you can take the drive and plug it into any windows or Mac machine, and read the contents off of it ...

If you format it as Mac OS Extended, the drive is committed to being read by a Mac computer only ...

** Do not format it as FAT32 ... as Mac will not write any files larger than 4GB to it ..

09-11-2011, 01:39 AM
facialfreak Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Montreal Posts: 3,018	You need to put a little bit of forethought into how you will be using this drive. Being an external (read: portable) drive, if you *format it as NTFS, you can read its contents from both Mac OR Windows* computers ... Meaning you can take the drive and plug it into any windows or Mac machine, and read the contents off of it ... If you format it as Mac OS Extended, the drive is committed to being read by a Mac computer only ... Do not format it as FAT32 ... as Mac will not** write any files larger than 4GB to it .. __________________ Managed Shared Hosting starting at $4.99/mo Managed VPS starting at $29.99/mo Last edited by facialfreak; 09-11-2011 at 01:42 AM..