G-Technology external hard drive Windows/Mac?

[BruceiD]

Hey everyone!

I'm planning on buying the G-Technology 500GB USB3 external hard drive since it's small, looks great and inexpensive (€69 here).
Anyways this is "designed to work seamlessly with the Macbook Air and Macs..." but I was wondering whether this hard drive will have any problems with Windows because I'm planning to store projects on the drive that I have to show to other people who have Windows computers.
So, does anyone have this kind of drive or can anyone answer my question 🙂?

Link to the drive

Thanks in advance!
Bruce

 

[mfram]

It should work fine. But you will have to re-format it first. The drive comes pre-formatted with the Mac HFS+ file system.

 

[Weaselboy]

From the description it appears it is already formatted in HFS+ (the Mac disk format). That won't allow Windows users to read files from the drive. If you want a format that both Windows and Mac can read/write, use exFAT.

 

[mwhities]

Perfect suggestions above.

I'd tell the clients to upgrade to a Mac. 😉