Ext HD - Mac and PC compatibility

I currently have a PC and plan to move to a Mac in the next few
months. I'd like to buy an external HD that will mainly hold video
for editing and was curious if anyone had advice/known issues about
using the HD for the PC and the MAC.

I am aware of the FAT v NTFS formatting required and am looking into a
Maxtor One Touch 4 500G drive.

I'm open to suggestions and any guidance would be appreciated.

-Trevor

FAT32 is your only choice, unless there is a UDF version supported by both XP and OSX.

FAT32 is limited to 4GB files, which limits your videos.
You need a third party util to format over 32GB as FAT32,
and a 500GB volume will be slow for some operations.

"Trevor Stone" <tstone1@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1cd7ed92-2ec2-4e4a-ba34-1f4e5645cf66@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>I currently have a PC and plan to move to a Mac in the next few
> months. I'd like to buy an external HD that will mainly hold video
> for editing and was curious if anyone had advice/known issues about
> using the HD for the PC and the MAC.
>
> I am aware of the FAT v NTFS formatting required and am looking into a
> Maxtor One Touch 4 500G drive.
>

In article <13shl42mn3meg08@corp.supernews.com>, Eric Gisin wrote:
> FAT32 is your only choice, unless there is a UDF version supported by both XP and OSX.

How about formatting the drive for OSX and using MacDrive to access it
from Windows XP?

(See http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/ for details. Bottom
line, for $50US you can have full access to Mac filesystems from Windows.)

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Roger Blake
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Roger Blake wrote:
>
> In article <13shl42mn3meg08@corp.supernews.com>, Eric Gisin wrote:
> > FAT32 is your only choice, unless there is a UDF version supported by both XP and OSX.
>
> How about formatting the drive for OSX and using MacDrive to access it
> from Windows XP?
>
> (See http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/ for details. Bottom
> line, for $50US you can have full access to Mac filesystems from Windows.)

Excellent product - installed on all my (non WinXP64) systems.

Works almost flawlessly.

Duncan
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Previously Trevor Stone <tstone1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I currently have a PC and plan to move to a Mac in the next few
> months. I'd like to buy an external HD that will mainly hold video
> for editing and was curious if anyone had advice/known issues about
> using the HD for the PC and the MAC.

> I am aware of the FAT v NTFS formatting required and am looking into a
> Maxtor One Touch 4 500G drive.

> I'm open to suggestions and any guidance would be appreciated.

> -Trevor

Just an addition to the other excellent comments: On the hardware
side any USB2.0 external drive should work with a MAC. The only
thing you need to solve is the filesystem issue.

Side note as to the Maxtors: They run hot and have disks in them
that are sensitive to heat. Not a good choice, it seems. Gte
something with a fan.

Arno

Thanks for all the helpful comments. Looks like I'll be doing a bit
more research.

-Trevor