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apple Mac File System

  • 20-04-2008 9:50pm
    #1
    tech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,860 ✭✭✭


    Hi all I have a friend who has 2 mac's and also some pc's , He wants to purchase a Western Digital NAS drive

    But I think that these only support Windows File Format and that the MAC's would not be able to access this.

    Is this correct?


Comments

  • #2
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    If it was formatted in Fat 32 then he should have no problem accessing it.


  • #3
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    The Mac can read and write to FAT and FAT32 filesystems. It can read NTFS file systems out of the box or with ntfs-3g and Fuse it can read, write and format NTFS albeit slightly slower than you may be used to.

    If you share the drive on a network the filesystem is irrelevant and any computer should be able to write to it.

    /edit:

    You say it's a NAS which means it's networked. If that's so then it's file system doesn't matter - all computers on a network will have r/w access where permitted. Most NAS boxes share using SAMBA which is also what's installed on OSX to access Windows shared drives and to make files available to Windows computers.

    ZEN


  • #4
    WizZard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    Some older drives used to be marketed as networkable when in fact you needed a client installed on your machine to use them (generally limited to Windows)
    Make sure it is a real NAS (Google for some reviews of the exact model number) and if so, you'll be fine.


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