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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1541349"><p>Are you sharing the external drives with Windows? If not, then you don't need to get Paragon NTFS, just format the drives for OSX. These days most EHDs come formatted in NTFS to work with windows, but all you have to do to get it ready for OSX is to reformat using Disk Utility. Unfortunately, if you do that you can't read the drives on Windows, but if you don't need that, it's the better way to go. If you do need NTFS, Paragon is great (I have it myself).</p><p></p><p>3T is a BIG Time Machine drive. You may want to partition that and get some use out of the space. Or use a smaller EHD for TM. TM should generally be twice the size of the drive it is backing up, so if you have a 750GB internal drive, 1.5T is a good size TM drive. I use two backup systems, one is TM to a 2TB MyBook with two partitions, the other is Carbon Copy Cloner to a LaCie portable drive. When I travel, I take the LaCie with me just in case I have a failure on the road. By having two separate drives for the backups I decrease the possibility of having simultaneous failures on two drives, the main and a backup. It's unlikely, I know, but I used to manage data centers and I know how unlikely things do happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1541349"] Are you sharing the external drives with Windows? If not, then you don't need to get Paragon NTFS, just format the drives for OSX. These days most EHDs come formatted in NTFS to work with windows, but all you have to do to get it ready for OSX is to reformat using Disk Utility. Unfortunately, if you do that you can't read the drives on Windows, but if you don't need that, it's the better way to go. If you do need NTFS, Paragon is great (I have it myself). 3T is a BIG Time Machine drive. You may want to partition that and get some use out of the space. Or use a smaller EHD for TM. TM should generally be twice the size of the drive it is backing up, so if you have a 750GB internal drive, 1.5T is a good size TM drive. I use two backup systems, one is TM to a 2TB MyBook with two partitions, the other is Carbon Copy Cloner to a LaCie portable drive. When I travel, I take the LaCie with me just in case I have a failure on the road. By having two separate drives for the backups I decrease the possibility of having simultaneous failures on two drives, the main and a backup. It's unlikely, I know, but I used to manage data centers and I know how unlikely things do happen. [/QUOTE]
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