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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 148951" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>Because, Your PC has Windows XP or 2k and IT'S doing the reading and writing with the drive. The Mac is using TCP/IP and talking to the PC via the network. The Mac with OSX nor Linux can at the present time not write to an NTFS drive plugged into the Mac or linux system. The PC is doing the work. FAT32 is not that much slower if at all than NTFS. There is a 4GB file size limitation though as already has been pointed out. If you want the drive to work properly with both Windows and OSX, format it Fat32. It will work fine on both systems. Get a USB 2 card for your PC. USB 1.1 is way to slow for any large file transfers!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 148951, member: 8287"] Because, Your PC has Windows XP or 2k and IT'S doing the reading and writing with the drive. The Mac is using TCP/IP and talking to the PC via the network. The Mac with OSX nor Linux can at the present time not write to an NTFS drive plugged into the Mac or linux system. The PC is doing the work. FAT32 is not that much slower if at all than NTFS. There is a 4GB file size limitation though as already has been pointed out. If you want the drive to work properly with both Windows and OSX, format it Fat32. It will work fine on both systems. Get a USB 2 card for your PC. USB 1.1 is way to slow for any large file transfers!! [/QUOTE]
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