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WD My Book - What's the Difference?
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<blockquote data-quote="TattooedMac" data-source="post: 1645695" data-attributes="member: 101749"><p>Western Digital make Ext HHD explicitly for Mac OS X, and this is what you are seeing the "My Book Mac". At the end of the day, there isn't really any difference, apart from the Mac "My Book" will be a Plug and Play Ext HHD, already formatted for OS X. </p><p>You will be able to plug it in, and straight away use it, without the need to format it. The other My Book, will be Windows compatible as well, and could well be formatted in MS Dos (FAT) or NTFS and will need reformatting to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) before you can use it for you Mac files.</p><p></p><p>So in short, nothing really.</p><p>Oh and welcome to the forums . . . .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TattooedMac, post: 1645695, member: 101749"] Western Digital make Ext HHD explicitly for Mac OS X, and this is what you are seeing the "My Book Mac". At the end of the day, there isn't really any difference, apart from the Mac "My Book" will be a Plug and Play Ext HHD, already formatted for OS X. You will be able to plug it in, and straight away use it, without the need to format it. The other My Book, will be Windows compatible as well, and could well be formatted in MS Dos (FAT) or NTFS and will need reformatting to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) before you can use it for you Mac files. So in short, nothing really. Oh and welcome to the forums . . . . [/QUOTE]
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