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hello. i'm new here and will be switching from a PC to a new iMac in a few weeks. i'm a professional musician and will be doing a lot of music production on my new machine.
i had a question regarding external hard drives. right now, i have a 1TB glyph external drive with all of my music, movies, pictures, word documents, etc... it's obviously formatted for NTFS and is almost full. i plan on purchasing a new 4 TB G Drive (with thunderbolt and USB 3.0) which will be formatted to use with my new iMac. can i just drag and drop everything from my old NTFS drive to the new HFS drive and my new iMac will read and write flawlessly or is there another step i have to take? i've tried to do a few google searches but nothing is really turning up. thanks in advance and i look forward to joining the Mac community in the next few weeks!
p.s. i just heard about the Paragon software (NTFS for Mac). would it be better to format my new G Drive to NTFS and just download this new software from Paragon? i'm guessing that it works flawlessly with no problems?
i had a question regarding external hard drives. right now, i have a 1TB glyph external drive with all of my music, movies, pictures, word documents, etc... it's obviously formatted for NTFS and is almost full. i plan on purchasing a new 4 TB G Drive (with thunderbolt and USB 3.0) which will be formatted to use with my new iMac. can i just drag and drop everything from my old NTFS drive to the new HFS drive and my new iMac will read and write flawlessly or is there another step i have to take? i've tried to do a few google searches but nothing is really turning up. thanks in advance and i look forward to joining the Mac community in the next few weeks!
p.s. i just heard about the Paragon software (NTFS for Mac). would it be better to format my new G Drive to NTFS and just download this new software from Paragon? i'm guessing that it works flawlessly with no problems?
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