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What format for external HD?
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Hey all,
Ive just put a 120Gb HD into an external firewire/usb case. Now I want to be able to move the data between PCs running winXP and macs running osX what format would you guys recommend for the drive? ie FAT32 etc
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If the PC is fixed, ie you only use one or maybe two PC's all the time, most people in the forum seem to recommend buying MacDrive and installing it on the PC so it can read the HFS format. On the Mac this is certainly faster then FAT 32. I think MacDrive will also mount the drive on the PC desktop, which is nice. If you are moving around to a bunch of different PC's like on a campus environment and can't always get the same computer or can't install software, format as FAT 32. The latter was how I formated my drive. I also think there might have been an issue on the size of drive you could format as FAT 32, but I can't quiet remember the limit, I think you're OK.
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How about NTFS? Can OSX handle reading and writing to/from an NTFS formatted disk?
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Originally posted by tobes:
How about NTFS? Can OSX handle reading and writing to/from an NTFS formatted disk?
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No. I'd go with Slider's recommendation of MacDrive and formatting as HFS+.
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I will second bradoesch (...and third Slider?).
A friend of mine recently went through this headache with a client that wanted raw footage and final edits on two different external firewire drives. After many IT department inquiries the MacDrive/HFS+ proved to be the most economical and stable solution.
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Originally posted by tobes:
How about NTFS? Can OSX handle reading and writing to/from an NTFS formatted disk?
Microsoft control the NTFS specification very closely. Nothing other than a Windows NT/2000/XP system can read NTFS
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No, there is a Linux support for NTFS. For a long time, it was read-only, they more recently added write support, although they warn it is quite buggy and liable to cause data loss.
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Originally posted by bradoesch:
No. I'd go with Slider's recommendation of MacDrive and formatting as HFS+.
Agreed. Better support than FAT32.
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