external HDD via usb2.0, pwede ikabit sa PC and Imac?

**RedHorse** · February 20th, 2008 05:51 PM

pictures kasi madami na, at di naman yata cost effective, saving on both windows and mac platforms...

pwede nga ba? mga 300Gb ok na ba?

TIA

**darksword_08** · February 20th, 2008 06:06 PM

dude sa windows platform wala prob yan sa mac di ko alam kasi incompatible yata sila

alam ko to transfer a mac base pic sa windows need mo pa ng converter or driver

or pwede mu gamitin yung Typhoon usb mac to windows yun derecho

make it 500gb para later di ka na na mgupgrade uli ng external HDD mo..

here in the office i use 500gb external HDD usb 2.0 sa P4 1.7 lang to nakakabit

tapos ung HDD ko sa pc 1 80gb at 1 160gb os Winxpsp2

kayang kaya naman

**Jun aka Pekto** · February 20th, 2008 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by RedHorse

pictures kasi madami na, at di naman yata cost effective, saving on both windows and mac platforms...

pwede nga ba? mga 300Gb ok na ba?

TIA

Hooking up a usb2 external hard drive to a Mac or pc? Yes, it's no problem. I hook up a number of external hard drives to both Windows pc's/laptops and my Mac Mini.

**Bogeyman** · February 20th, 2008 07:12 PM

I use a relatively small external hard disk (120GB). No problem plugging it into both Mac and PC using USB 2.0

Yun nga lang, kitang-kita yung hidden folders sa Mac OS. Kaya buking ang **** files.

**bavent** · February 20th, 2008 08:57 PM

Mga Sir magkano po external hard drive diyan sa pinas and ano po magandang brand.dito sa amin 500 GB ranges from 60£ to 70£/ western digital brand name.Ok na rin po ba ito,or mas cheaper po sa pinas?

Thank you po

**RedHorse** · February 20th, 2008 09:43 PM

punta ka dito... villman.com

mahal sa villman, at least gauge mo lang sila sa mga local prices

**RedHorse** · February 20th, 2008 09:47 PM

*jun aka pekto, thanks, trusted resource person sa windows-mac OS

*bogeyman, darksword_08, bavent and others I may have missed, thank you

Originally Posted by Bogeyman

I use a relatively small external hard disk (120GB). No problem plugging it into both Mac and PC using USB 2.0

Yun nga lang, kitang-kita yung hidden folders sa Mac OS. Kaya buking ang **** files.

thanks, patay tayo dito

**mikaztro** · February 20th, 2008 11:51 PM

How much ba ngayon external Hard Drive na 300 to 500gb?

**sherwinaval** · February 21st, 2008 12:26 AM

depende po sa klase ng hdd... 3.5 or 2.5 po ba? 8mb or 16mb cache? 5400, 7200, 10000k rpm? marami na po kasi pwede pagpilian. kung yung 2.5" na external hdd lang, just ask for the brand that is usually used by toshiba... yan din kasi gamit ko and for 3 years ok pa naman sya.

**Jun aka Pekto** · February 21st, 2008 03:44 AM

Most likely you already know this. But, it's still worth mentioning.

Most external hard drives are formatted for Windows and with FAT32. My suggestion is leave it as is not because it's readable in both Windows and Mac (plus Linux). But, dvd players with Divx/jpg support can read them too.

I sometimes take my WD My Book (500gb) external hard drive and plug it in to the dvd player's usb port. It reads all the media files including the non-compatible ones. It just takes forever to read since my dvd player has a usb1 port.

If you intend to use it strictly as a backup device, you can reformat using the NTFS file system. I have 2 other external hard drives so formatted and the Mac reads/writes to them fine. Actually, I take that back. It's still read only for NTFS without 3rd party utilities.

Stick to FAT32.