Hi, external hdd question

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Virusyn


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Hi,
I'm almost out of harddrive space, I'm wondering how do I set up a external 3.5 inch hdd. Do I buy the regular hdd and enclosure and its ready to go thanks? any info will be greatly appreciated
 
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You can buy a internal drive and enclosure and put them together, or you can just buy an external HD.
 
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StretchR is right.

then just make sure it's formatted FAT32 if you pan on using it with your mac AND a windows pc. but if it'll never see a windows machine, it can be formatted HFS.

note: you can do this yourself with OS X's disk utility.
 

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