“Can it save Mac and Windows pictures or videos at the same time ? or does it have to be formatted to one system ?”
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It's pre-formatted for Mac. Windows uses NTFS and Mac OS uses HFS and they're incompatible with each other. However, you can format the drive to work with both Windows and Mac by using the exFAT filesystem. Prior to use, I would recommend reformatting the drive in exFAT.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Format it exfat and both windows and Mac can read it.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Format as FAT32 and it will mount on either a Mac, Window, FreeBSD, or Linux computer. Files from any of these systems can be written to and read from the disk. Files in a proprietary format will only be understood by applications that read and write in that format, but any of these systems can copy the files to and from the external drive.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I formatted my drive to ExFat. It can then be read by Windows, Mac, and Linux easily. The white version comes formatted with Mac file system and the black one ntfs for windows.
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