External Drive Bargain for Macs?

mxyzptik on 31/05/2012 - 11:55

Today's $99 2TB USB 3.0 bargain is great for PCs - but what's a good bargain for Mac storage?

Comments

Dilbery on 31/05/2012 - 12:11

+2

Buy that drive and format it to the filesystem you want?

There are virtually no differences between Windows and Mac externals, only the format and price.
- bbyboy on 31/05/2012 - 12:26
  
  +1
  
  DONT do what s/he said. you'll only be limiting it to macs if you do
  rather search for "ntfs for mac"
  here is an example: http://download.cnet.com/NTFS-3G/3000-2094_4-10913782.html
  its an old version but should still work
  after installing you should be able to use any windows formatted (ntfs) hard drive
ghopper168 on 31/05/2012 - 13:46

+2

All of these external drive have been formatted to Fat32, you can used them on a Mac.
I use a Seagate external on my mac without any problems.

If you have a problem Dilbery right you can reformat it.

Oh, I do fine the drive more stable after you reformat it.
- bbyboy on 31/05/2012 - 14:27
  
  +1
  
  fat32 is slower and has a file size limit of 4gb
- _Bruce_ on 31/05/2012 - 15:30
  
  Any drive over 2TB will NOT come in FAT32 as this is a hard limit. FAT32 also has other issues (some mentioned, but also security, reliability etc).
  
  EDIT: Should mention that ExFAT is a 'solution' of sorts for larger volume cross platform media, but it is MS type of 'open' (The fact that this format is standardised by sdxc is criminal).
mxyzptik on 31/05/2012 - 16:24

Thanks Guys. I have that drive and will proceed tonite :)