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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I bought one once. Came with Mac software already on it. I think already formatted too.
You can download the software, and reformat easy enough, if you don't choose that model.
You can download the software, and reformat easy enough, if you don't choose that model.
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.
