Will any Hard Drive work for a mac?

[amoildani]

since I've decided to hold out my wanting a PM until june, i'm wanting to buy an external HD for my 12 inch powerbook. Could I just buy one of the WD or Seagate HD that are always on sale, pop it into an external case and it will work on mac?

[Blue Velvet]

Yes. Just format it to OSX Extended (Journaled if you want) with DiskUtility and it should be fine...

[daveL]

Yes. Get a firewire/usb2 case and ATA drive (no SCSI).

[amoildani]

excellent thanks!

is there a good way to connect a pc to a mac, possibly using firewire? when im moving large files through my ethernet network it goes so slow. what if I used a 6-pin to 6-pin firewire cable, would that work? mostly moving audio and video files back and forth

[daveL]

excellent thanks!

is there a good way to connect a pc to a mac, possibly using firewire? when im moving large files through my ethernet network it goes so slow. what if I used a 6-pin to 6-pin firewire cable, would that work? mostly moving audio and video files back and forth
Firewire works Mac-to-Mac, but I have not experience using fw PC-to-Mac.

[Mechcozmo]

Firewire works Mac-to-Mac, but I have not experience using fw PC-to-Mac.

It is a theoretical can-do. But hey, its Windows, and that's also a theoretical can-work. :)