Portable External Hard Drives

Edward Troxel · May 20th, 2011, 09:15 AM

A Mac can read/copy from an NTFS drive just fine. I do it routinely. But it will not WRITE to the drive so they will not be able to give you larger files. Now, as for whether or not they can edit them... :-)

Seriously, if their NLE can read the files, yes, they can edit them - just copy off your NTFS drive to their local drive and they're good to go.

Edward Troxel · May 20th, 2011, 09:16 AM

There ARE programs for the Mac that will let them write to an NTFS drive and there are also programs for the PC that will let them write to a Mac formatted drive.

Jeff Harper · May 20th, 2011, 09:33 AM

Thanks Edward, that's good news. On occasion I'm asked to give raw video to folks, it's good to know I can simply put it on my drive and give it to them regardless of their machine type. Since my drives are always formatted NTFS, I'm good to go.

Ed Roo · May 20th, 2011, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Edward Troxel

There ARE programs for the Mac that will let them write to an NTFS drive and there are also programs for the PC that will let them write to a Mac formatted drive.

Please provide name(s) of programs that will allow Mac's to write to NTFS external hard disk drives. (I need one!) Thanks.

Edward Troxel · May 20th, 2011, 11:56 AM

Just google "mac write to ntfs". A couple names that pop up are Paragon and Tuxera. There's also something called NTFS-3G. Just do a quick search and you'll get many hits.

Magnus Helander · May 28th, 2011, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by David Jasany

I'm considering purchasing a portable external hard drive for backup and storage off-site. I like the portability of the small USB-powered drives. I'm looking at the 1TB/USB 3.0 models but I'm not sure of their reliablity. Anyone having a good experience with these types of drives? Thanks.

I would recommend a 2.5 cabinet with two drives for RAID1 mirroring

I use this one for offloading memory cards...
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If you trash one drive you will not loose any data since it is mirrored

May 20th, 2011, 09:15 AM	#16
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Re: Portable External Hard Drives A Mac can read/copy from an NTFS drive just fine. I do it routinely. But it will not WRITE to the drive so they will not be able to give you larger files. Now, as for whether or not they can edit them... :-) Seriously, if their NLE can read the files, yes, they can edit them - just copy off your NTFS drive to their local drive and they're good to go. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

May 20th, 2011, 09:16 AM	#17
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Re: Portable External Hard Drives There ARE programs for the Mac that will let them write to an NTFS drive and there are also programs for the PC that will let them write to a Mac formatted drive. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

May 20th, 2011, 09:33 AM	#18
Jeff Harper Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 8,425	Re: Portable External Hard Drives Thanks Edward, that's good news. On occasion I'm asked to give raw video to folks, it's good to know I can simply put it on my drive and give it to them regardless of their machine type. Since my drives are always formatted NTFS, I'm good to go. __________________ "The horror of what I saw on the timeline cannot be described."

May 20th, 2011, 11:56 AM	#20
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Re: Portable External Hard Drives Just google "mac write to ntfs". A couple names that pop up are Paragon and Tuxera. There's also something called NTFS-3G. Just do a quick search and you'll get many hits. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters