Mac Hard drive

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JamesBart

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does it matter what type of external hard drive i have for my mac? i know this is prob stupid, but does it matter? are some windows only and some mac? thanks!!! :D
 
Yes, the Mac hardware is defferent to the one of the PC, I got my new 80GB Mac HDD for about 70 euros, their about double the price of the PC's HDDs

btw I have exactly the same iMac with you, although I've added an extra 512MB Ram
 
Ouch, I figured if it was just for storage it could just be USB 2.0 or Firewire compatible. Guess not.
 
Thanks

Thanks, i thought so just wasnt sure. yeah the imac will be getting 1gb of ram very soon in next month. haha who uses mac's? its all about the modual8. thanks guys :D
 
Alot of people use Mac's. My friends just got an iBook and couldn't be happier. I just switched to Linux and couldn't be happier. The days of Microsoft + PC are coming to an end in my life, I'll probably never use any Windows OS again.
 
4W4K3 said:
Alot of people use Mac's. My friends just got an iBook and couldn't be happier. I just switched to Linux and couldn't be happier. The days of Microsoft + PC are coming to an end in my life, I'll probably never use any Windows OS again.
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cool man! i use mine for VJ-ing. i use an imac g5, it aint mine but i like it. im going to look into linux! but not sure where to start. :cool:
 
6071842 said:
cool man! i use mine for VJ-ing. i use an imac g5, it aint mine but i like it. im going to look into linux! but not sure where to start. :cool:
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Best choice would probably be too test a very easy to use distribution first, like SuSe or Ubuntu.
 
I think all external hard drives are the same, so just make sure that you get either the USB or Firewire one.
 
I've come across some firewire drives that would only work on a mac, but I do know my USB and Firewire/USB enclosures work on both of my machines. Internal drives are the same as any other machine. Older macs used SCSI, IDE today(have they gone SATA?) Anyway, any drive should work. The only real difference is the file system, but that only matters when booting to MacOS.

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Guess I should of read the last post...oh well :P
 
Yea for internal Hard drives its different. For Example i Know the Mac Mini uses a laptop hard drive(Why???) Remember that the Mac filesystem is HFS+, but macs can also understand FAT32 and NTFS so if you want to use this hard drive with a windows computer remember to format it either one of those ways. Otherwise format it HFS+ its more efficent and allows for slightly more space.
 
Windows cannot read/write HFS without purchasing extra software. OS X cannot write NTFS. FAT32 does have some problems though. All files must be smaller than 4GB minus 1 byte. OS X apps do not always run properly from FAT32.

Mac can read NTFS, but not write; it can read and write FAT32, but there are size and permission limitations (as mentioned above). Windows can read and write HFS+, but only with a utility such as MacDrive (not free). Also OS X cannot boot from FAT16/32, only from UFC or HFS+.
 
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