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Old 10-01-2008, 09:53 PM
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ok. thanks. but yea this is prob a bad place to ask, but how to format drives into FAT32 and make partitions in windows?
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Old 10-01-2008, 11:07 PM
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yea i tried that. but after deleting the old partition and starting from fresh. I can still only format the drive into NTFS as the only option. does this have anything to do with the size of the drive or type?

WD 500 GB SATA2 16MB 7200rpm
connected via USB as an external drive

How do i format it into FAT32?
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Old 18-01-2008, 04:13 AM
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enclosure???
hi,
I'm trying to work out this external HDD thing, I need one for video, I'd like to get a 750GB WD drive and separate enclosure that can support FW800 for my MBP.

I've read the threads and people seem to like the Icecube G2. then I read someone
http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/12/31/...ive-enclosure/
raving about the NewerTech miniStack:
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newe...gy/FWU2ESMSV3/

which is better? is there a better third option out there?

any suggestions greatly welcome, at the moment I'm stumped at choosing an enclosure.
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Old 19-01-2008, 02:51 PM
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Same difference I say. Just pick the form factor you'd prefer. The miniStack is designed to sit under a Mac Mini, though they don't have FW800. Certainly might be nicer if you end up stacking the drives.
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Old 03-03-2008, 02:28 PM
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RAID 1 vs seperate drives
Maybe this is a silly newbie question, but I would appreciate any advice.

After some help from this thread earlier I was very close to buying either a Taurus LAN or LaCie 2Big 2 x 500gig network drive setup as RAID 1. This will serve as external storage mainly for media files with it's own backup. There is a mac and a pc on the network. Either of these option will cost just under $700.

On the other hand, I can buy a WD world book 500g network drive for $200 which has a USB port for additional storage. I can then buy a 500gig WD mybook usb drive for $170 to plug into the network drive. This totals $370. Or I could get 2 of the network drives for $400.

This solution is a bit more clunky and requires manually backing up, or setting up a software solution to do so, but costs $300 less than the more elegant RAID 1 drives.

Are issues of drive formatting different for these 2 solutions, given the need to access it with mac & pc?

Can anyone give me a good reason to spend the extra for a RAID solution?

Thanks heaps to anyone who can help.

PS, got my new macbook on Friday and I am an extremely happy new convert.
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Old 21-06-2008, 06:34 PM
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For external USB / firewire drives etc I've loaded Paragon NTFS for Mac 6.x on all our Mac's, and they can read / write to NTFS partitions. It just installs as a driver and works flawlessly.

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I've ordered a 1TB drive that I want to use for two things. To store media for my Beyonwiz and as a backup with Time Machine.

As I understand Time Machine only works with HFS+ and my Beyonwiz only works with FAT32.

From reading this it seems that I can just partition is and format one to HFS+ and one to FAT32. Can OSX format in FAT32? When I open disk utility the only formatting seems to be Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Is that HFS+?

If I can't format to FAT32 in OSX, can I do that on a Windows box then partition half of it to be Mac OS Extended?

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