What hard drive that is a good

What hard drive that is a good

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If the external hard drive is formatted using FAT32 file system then it will be compatible with both Windows and Mac. You need to reformat it if it's using NTFS file system.

There are some limitations however. FAT32 has limitation over the maximum size of file that can be stored. And also the Mac OS X will use no more than 128 GB space on the Hard disk.

There is another option. A software called MacDrive makes windows to be able to read hard disk that has been formatted for Mac.

Here is a link to the site of that product MacDrive

What hard drive that is a good

With Mac, whatever hard drive works on a normal PC should also work with a Macintosh computer. The only problem you may encounter is with the file system because Microsoft Windows and OS X use different file systems by default. In Microsoft Windows beginning in Windows XP, the default file system is NTFS.

In OS X, it can access hard drives formatted in NTFS but it’ll only work in read-only state by default. If you need a hard drive that can be accessed by both Microsoft Windows and OS X, you need to format the hard drive with either FAT32 or exFAT file system. Microsoft Windows supports three file systems: FAT32, NTFS, and exFAT.

Of the three, FAT32 is the oldest file system available to Windows. With FAT32, you can’t have a file larger than 4 GB.