11-14-2010, 06:28 PM

hi eveyone,
i intend to buy a portable hard disk 1tb from ebay. im considering between seagate and wd which one is the better one? and also in the note they said that the wd hard disk need to "reformat". What is that mean can any one help me?

11-14-2010, 06:36 PM

Also the Seagate will require formatting. Just connect to whatever Mac you have, no details supplied alas but Firewire is better than USB or USB 2, go to Disk Utility, form at the drive Mac OS Extended (Journalled) and partition even if for only on e partition, setting up as GUID if your Mac is Intel, or Apple Partition Map (APM) if PowerPC.

WD and Seagate come out of the same factory so take your pick.

11-14-2010, 06:37 PM

either one is good

as for a reformat - depends on what you are using the disk for.

If its only for Apple machines, then a reformat to Mac OS Extended

If you intend to share the disk with a windows PC, then its FAT 32, called MS DOS format if you reformat it with Apples's disk utility.

If you want to share large movie files ober 4 gig, then its NTFS - but you will need extra drivers to write to that format

Let us know how you want to use hat disk, as a shared Mac - Windows PC drive, a Mac back-up disk, or just spare storage for the Mac