On 2016-12-20 8:57 , David J Brooks wrote:
Just bought and installed a Seagate 1TB external that was on sale for
$89 Canadian. It says it will work on Macs with out having to reformat
by downloading and installing a program from Seagate which i did. Does
anyone else go this route or do you just reformat the drive
you wisely reformatted the drive — hopefully as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)"
but the implied question is why would a Mac user want to use Seagate's NTFS
driver? the answer is if you need a drive that you can plug into both a
Windows machine and a Mac, NTFS can do it, but since it requires a
third-party driver on Macs, you'd always have to be wary of OS X updates
causing problems with the driver; i also would expect that Disk Utility on
the Mac would be unable to "repair" the drive when necessary, but if you
have a Windows machine that might not matter
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