Formatting My Hard Drive

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Rygrade


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Hi there I have just bought a WD My Passport Essential 320 gig external drive. I am using the drive to store only RAW, DNG and JPEG files which I create in Photoshop. I am wondering what I should format my drive to in order to store these files and how do I do it. I am unsure what I should format my drive to in order to both read and write the files. Any help would be massively appreciated.

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Ryan
 
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Easy, if you want to share the drive with PCs, then FAT 32 is the format to use

If you just want the best format for OS X then Mac OS Extended (journalled)
 

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