I usually work on PCs and still use them in my personal studio, however at school and work everyone uses a Mac. I've come to the point where I need to read and write to an external drive on both systems.
NTFS is great on PC but can only read on Macs
FAT32 works ok but has file size limits
What does everyone use to go between Mac and PC?
Dave
Ext2 is one of the default Linux operating systems. It has no (practical) limits on drive or file size and as it is open source, is free, easily available and better maintained.
Paragon ExtFS is a 3rd party driver that enables full read/write access to a ext2 drive from a OSX Mac. See here:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33374/paragon-ext2-ext3-fs
I don't know much about Macs so assume that this product is worth the 40USD asked. There may be other products that can do this.
If you install ext ifs on your PC(s) you will have read/write access to a mounted ext2 drive. I have used this to recover data on a NAS drive so I know that it works fine and it is free. See here:
http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html
One other bonus is that if you ever configure a Linux platform, (including a NAS) you will be able to move data between all your workstations.
Steve
I usually work on PCs and still use them in my personal studio, however at school and work everyone uses a Mac. I've come to the point where I need to read and write to an external drive on both systems.NTFS is great on PC but can only read on Macs
FAT32 works ok but has file size limitsWhat does everyone use to go between Mac and PC?
1. do you already have that external drive ?
if yes , then i would suggest you look @ http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
and format the external drive from a mac.
if no , look at buying a NAS , i.e. readynas duo , which formats the drive in it's own format , and sharing on the network , allows anything to access the drive , via a multitude of access levels.
I am using a readynas duo to allow access to a multitude of systems , including ipads, to 2TB of video files.
Hi
If you install MacDrive on your PC then Windows can read/write directly to HFS+ Mac drives.
This is the best solution, because although Windows formatted drives can be used with OS X most Mac audio or video programs won't work properly with anything else but HFS+ drives.
So Windows formatted drives are best only used for data transfer, never as a working drive with a Mac.
Install MacFuse and NTFS-3G on the Mac to read/write to NTFS formatted drives
It works and it's free.
