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External Hard Drive for a Macintosh Laptop

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whovous

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My daughter's art school required her to get a Macintosh laptop. Now, she needs an external HD for same. She has given me only two requirements: It must be at least 100Gig, and it must have a USB connection.

Is there anything else I should look for, or do all HDDs work with both PCs and Macs?
 
I have never run across any external enclosures that did not work with my MacBook, though I have heard of a few. If you get her a pre-built external (WD, Seagate, etc) then you should be fine. And if it doesnt work, return it and get another one.
 
Originally posted by: whovous
My daughter's art school required her to get a Macintosh laptop. Now, she needs an external HD for same. She has given me only two requirements: It must be at least 100Gig, and it must have a USB connection.

Is there anything else I should look for, or do all HDDs work with both PCs and Macs?
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Anything should work. For size/simplicity I'd get a 2.5" model, since it will be self-powered (powered via the USB bus) and much, much smaller and quieter. They're not much more nowadays - I've seen 120GB models for $80.
 
Macs will read NTFS and FAT32 external drives via USB and most WD drives are in FAT32 format. Macs can read/write to USB drives in FAT32 format, but I'm not sure about NTFS sicne I have not tried. If you get an external WD drive, everything is settle. Seagate is good, but they run too hot most of the time and very risky when accidentally dropping it or tripping it over.
 
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