I need to pick up an external hard drive and see certain HDs listed as "Backup Slim for Mac" etc. but I thought any external hard drive could just be formatted and used. Is this just a sales gimmick?
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External Hard Drives
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- Yes. It might be that it's simply pre-formatted to HFS+ or comes with Mac software.
There's nothing inherently "Mac" about a hard drive.
I prefer Western Digital drives. I have had good luck with these.
Here is a link to a drive on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Black-Passpor...wo_browse-bin:7817230011,p_89:Western+Digital
The same drive, but listed as for Mac it $10.00 more. The only difference is it is reformatted for Mac.
Either drive will work, it only takes about 10-15 seconds to reformat the drive for Mac.
I would buy to cheaper one.
Kim
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Download what software? The drive can be formatted using disk utility in two steps?
- Lots of drives come with the manufacturer's own backup software, various superfluous utilities or other such nonsense. Probably what he was referring to.
