Does this support Mac formatted drives?
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I don't believe so. The box is compatible with fat 32 formatted and NTFS formatted drives, but not Mac formatted drives.
1002180
You can format your HDD to exFAT which is windows and Mac compatible. Maybe android will pick it up.
1970561
Cannot answer your question since I have not had any experience using the DriveStation with a MAC.
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Yes it will. It comes formatted as NTFS which is Windows only but it is very simple to reformat it to FAT32 on your Mac to make it work. Don't spend the extra money on the Mac specific drive. Search youtube for Reformatting a drive from NTFS to FAT32.
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It should. Format it as a Mac OS X (Journaled) file system using Disk Utility, and you should be good to go.I only use it as a Time Machine backup HDD, so there's no troubles there.
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Edward, if you format the drive as NTFS, you would only be able to view its contents on a Mac. Writing to the drive would not be possible.
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Windows and Mac don't support all the same disk formats. Windows supports FAT32 and the more robust NTFS. Mac can read and write FAT32, as well as its own OS Extended format, but (unless things have changed) can only read NTFS. So FAT32 can be used for both, and external drives often come pre-formatted in FAT32. But if you're only going to use one, you might want to reformat to something optimal for your chosen platform.
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Any USB drive can. With a proviso: They come from amazon and other stores preformatted as FAT32. This format is recognized by all modern OSes. However if you format it on your mac to the MAC OS format then windows will think it is blank and ask to reformat it.ON both the MAC and PC you can chose to format any USB drive as 'FAT32'. Bottom line. Yes. don't worry lol
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Yes it supports large drives. I have connected on a Mac and i use 4TB drive in any format NTFS FAT or Mac OS X journaled. No problem
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yes, it comes formatted as Fat32. It can be used as is or reformatted using the disk utility in OS X
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Yep. That's the same thing I did. Of course your external HD will have to support USB2, because, I'm confident that you can't go: USB2 Mac -> USB3 hub -> USB3 HD. However, most newer ext HD's support both USB 2 & 3
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This drive is probably formatted for a PC only. I purchased one that would not work on a Mac and returned it. Look closely at the descriptio and see that it work on the Mac OS.
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You should be able to use it on both Windows and Mac to read and write. You just have to reformat the drive for FAT32 rather than NTFS. I did this with my WD my passport ultra, works fine unless Toshiba has documentation that states you cannot format FAT32, but I doubt it.
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Sorr y my first answer was not complete. You can down load software for wd and seagate drives that will recognize and format them.
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You can. My drive was formatted NTFS via usb and i connect to my Mac via Firewire 800 with no problems.
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Yes. Just need to format it in a format thats appropriate for Windows. Like exFAT. There are some formats that will be read/write for both Mac/Window. These will be most versatile
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Yes, mine was a Mac formatted drive and is now just an external I use for backup for my MacBook pro.
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Compatible with SATA III specs And USB 3.0 on PCs ,but not sure about the MAC OS X and USB 3.0.