Hi and thanks for reading. In my new 2011 macbook pro I'm using a 180gig SSD. And loving it.
The hardware just came in to enable me to install my stock 320 gig HD in the superdrive bay. What I was about to do to that drive was set up 100gigs or so as an NTFS Win 7 partition for office applications, and have the other 220 or so as data of all kinds--video, audio, and pictures--to be shared between os x and win 7, with by far the most use coming from the os x side. And then put it in the internal bay.
So far with my knowledge I was thinking FAT32 for the data partition, but some searching here has alerted me to exFAT, as well as some warnings about "sharing" data between operating systems (mostly warnings about accessing a mac-formatted drive with a windows machine, but some warning about stability on drives with different formats on them).
I'd love to hear some real-world experience here before proceeding with formatting, installs, etc.--has anyone done what I'm thinking of doing?
Thanks
The hardware just came in to enable me to install my stock 320 gig HD in the superdrive bay. What I was about to do to that drive was set up 100gigs or so as an NTFS Win 7 partition for office applications, and have the other 220 or so as data of all kinds--video, audio, and pictures--to be shared between os x and win 7, with by far the most use coming from the os x side. And then put it in the internal bay.
So far with my knowledge I was thinking FAT32 for the data partition, but some searching here has alerted me to exFAT, as well as some warnings about "sharing" data between operating systems (mostly warnings about accessing a mac-formatted drive with a windows machine, but some warning about stability on drives with different formats on them).
I'd love to hear some real-world experience here before proceeding with formatting, installs, etc.--has anyone done what I'm thinking of doing?
Thanks