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external hardrive for mac and pc
Replies: 13 — Last Post July 10 9:17pm by espresso8097
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wel yeah basically i need an external hardrive which is compatible with my macbook and my windows xp pc
my old seagate is only compatible to one or the other if i format it accordingly
but i wanted to use it for both my mac and pc to transfer files between them.
does anyone have any ideas what makes i should look for? i was wanting it at least 500gb, perhaps a terabyte in size

thanks

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i have one that is really good. Its called a Freecom

www.freecom.com

the samsung one is great =)

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I have a 500GB time capsule and I love it, it's wireless

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I suggest Western Digital, they're pretty reliable. Also I'd suggest you pay a little extra for external SATA, the speed increase is very nice.

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Quote: from Reece Dodsworth at 8:58 am on July 10, 2009
i have one that is really good. Its called a Freecom

www.freecom.com

the samsung one is great =)

Samsung stuff is always really good. And you do know that Shakesphere is one word right? (your sig).

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Quote: from musicfan3 at 3:00 pm on July 10, 2009
Quote: from Reece Dodsworth at 8:58 am on July 10, 2009
i have one that is really good. Its called a Freecom  

 www.freecom.com  

 the samsung one is great =)

Samsung stuff is always really good. And you do know that Shakesphere is one word right? (your sig).

Phhhsss =) Quiet don't tell anyone =) Thanks XD

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Quote: from Reece Dodsworth at 9:01 am on July 10, 2009
Quote: from musicfan3 at 3:00 pm on July 10, 2009
Quote: from Reece Dodsworth at 8:58 am on July 10, 2009
i have one that is really good. Its called a Freecom

  www.freecom.com

  the samsung one is great =)

 

 Samsung stuff is always really good. And you do know that Shakesphere is one word right? (your sig).

Phhhsss =) Quiet don't tell anyone =) Thanks XD

Haha your welcome. Even I mess up my words but thats cause I get lazy sometimes..

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Quote: from musicfan3 at 3:03 pm on July 10, 2009
Quote: from Reece Dodsworth at 9:01 am on July 10, 2009
Quote: from musicfan3 at 3:00 pm on July 10, 2009
Quote: from Reece Dodsworth at 8:58 am on July 10, 2009
i have one that is really good. Its called a Freecom    

  www.freecom.com    

  the samsung one is great =)

  Samsung stuff is always really good. And you do know that Shakesphere is one word right? (your sig).

 

 Phhhsss =) Quiet don't tell anyone =) Thanks XD

Haha your welcome. Even I mess up my words but thats cause I get lazy sometimes..

O god you should see me on msn... nothing is spelt right... Its a puzzle to understand me ^-^

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Quote: from Reece Dodsworth at 9:04 am on July 10, 2009
Quote: from musicfan3 at 3:03 pm on July 10, 2009
Quote: from Reece Dodsworth at 9:01 am on July 10, 2009
Quote: from musicfan3 at 3:00 pm on July 10, 2009
Quote: from Reece Dodsworth at 8:58 am on July 10, 2009
i have one that is really good. Its called a Freecom

   www.freecom.com

   the samsung one is great =)

   

  Samsung stuff is always really good. And you do know that Shakesphere is one word right? (your sig).

  Phhhsss =) Quiet don't tell anyone =) Thanks XD

 

 Haha your welcome. Even I mess up my words but thats cause I get lazy sometimes..

O god you should see me on msn... nothing is spelt right... Its a puzzle to understand me ^-^

Well msn doesn't count cause your talking to your friends and those are the ones who know you best so they're not gonna nazi you over grammar like some of these jerks on here.

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I recommend you buy an internal drive off newegg that has good reviews from users, then buy a separate external enclosure (one with eSATA support is nice too if your computer has it).

If you just buy some external drive, you never know what piece of junk they actually stuck inside the thing usually.

Western Digital has been pretty reliable in my experience, but as with any new harddrive just back stuff up initially before using it for real storage - when harddrives fail, they usually fail either quickly, or after a very long time, so

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To the best of my knowledge FAT formats are readable/writable in OS X, as well as Windows.

And it is possible to write (and reading is done by default) to NTFS partitions by downloading and installing NTFS-3g.

Here is the stuff to try to get OS X to read/write to NTFS (if that is what your current one if formatted as).  

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yeah technically wouldn't you just either have to make osx be able to read NTFS or just format in FAT 32 where both windows and OSX can read it??

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Quote: from wind at 8:00 pm on July 10, 2009
yeah technically wouldn't you just either have to make osx be able to read NTFS or just format in FAT 32 where both windows and OSX can read it??
Well, I know that Linux has drivers for NTFS, so it wouldn't surprise me if OSX does as well.
FAT32 works on everything sure, but its got downsides. For example, no file can be larger than 4GB, and fragmentation is a real issue if you plan to use the drive much.

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Quote: from Stormblazer at 10:09 pm on July 10, 2009
Quote: from wind at 8:00 pm on July 10, 2009
yeah technically wouldn't you just either have to make osx be able to read NTFS or just format in FAT 32 where both windows and OSX can read it??
Well, I know that Linux has drivers for NTFS, so it wouldn't surprise me if OSX does as well.
FAT32 works on everything sure, but its got downsides. For example, no file can be larger than 4GB, and fragmentation is a real issue if you plan to use the drive much.

I was meaning to put a link to the NTFS-3g (*nix drivers for NTFS) for OS X in my post.

http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

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