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Phaelax
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Posted: 7th May 2008 06:08
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I have a 400GB external drive that I need to read and write to with both Windows and Mac. It needs to support files larger than 4GB, so FAT won't work. And NTFS is writable from a Mac. Suggestions?


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bitJericho
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Posted: 7th May 2008 08:27
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if mac supports the ext2/ext3 filesystem, check out http://www.fs-driver.org/


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hessiess
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Posted: 7th May 2008 12:40
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I say ext3 aswell, It dosent fragment.

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 7th May 2008 14:02
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is windows hosting the drive? If so share the drive on the network and enable the apple talk protocol in windows. I have a pc that my wife and I use for file storage and back ups, shes on mac, im on windows - no problems. the drive is 500GB and is NTFS formatted.

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IanG
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Posted: 7th May 2008 17:24
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ext3 is the best out there, it does fragment but to such a tiny extent it is practically zero, but windows doesn't directly support it - hence the link in jerioc2day's post - and from a quick google it looks like mac doesn't support it directly either

so ntfs is probably the best bet after that, but does become fragmented, and with a large disk you don't want the hassle of defraging it

the network share idea would work, but you said you would be using 4gb+ files, which would be slow to transfer across a network

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GatorHex
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Posted: 7th May 2008 17:34
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NTFS with a Mac share or buy an external NAS (network attached storage) box which will probably be a linux ext3

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Phaelax
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Posted: 9th May 2008 22:13
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I can't do NTFS because Mac can't write to that. And the whole point of a USB external drive is to take it places other than my local network. I have PC and Mac at home but my friend only has Mac, which I'll need him to write to the drive. An internet share is not practical, we're talking a few hundred gigs.


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bitJericho
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Posted: 9th May 2008 22:20
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http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-read-and-write-ntfs-windows-partition-on-mac-os-x.html

I dunno if this is helpful or not, but check out this article^^


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Phaelax
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Posted: 11th May 2008 18:29
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thanks, i'll check into that.


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