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Originally Posted by Nikali
As I am new to Macs I thought I would scrawl the threads here to bone up on Mac knowledge. I came across a thread that said Macs can only read NTFS and cant write to it. They need to operate on storages formatted to Fat32.
This is obviously a problem as I will need to send data between the storage and the Mac HDD.
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Macs can read NTFS formatted drives, they just can't write files on them. NTFS is not well supported on non-Windows operating systems, which is why many people use FAT32 for drives. FAT32 is well supported on every relatively current operating system I know of. Macs use different formats for most drives by default, but FAT32 is a good option for external hard drives that will be used with Windows operating systems.
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Originally Posted by Nikali
Oh and also, I lose some storage space when I use Fat32 right? Isn't there also a 30GB single file limit? Or is that just for Fat32 within a PC system?
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Every filesystem format will use some space. Definitely not something to worry about. The point where you need the space it takes up is the point where you should look at getting another hard drive. I'm not sure about the file size limits, but I think 4 GB is the largest single file you can have on the drive.
If you don't need to put files from the Mac on the external drives, you can leave them formatted as they currently are, then start moving files between drives and dealing with formatting when you have the new Mac.
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