Format an External Hard Drive to use on MAC and PC

[Chris Borjis]

Paragon comes with it? thats a great value.

OS X has no problem reading NTFS without a driver it just can’t write to it
without help from another utility like paragon.

and comes in handy when someone wants a project archived
to an NTFS volume.

[Frank Giardina]

I’m going to do some tests and I’ll post the results 🙂

Fingers, eyes, arms, and legs all crossed!

Frank Giardina
17 Video Production

[Frank Giardina]

Seagate GoFlex 2TB External Drive “MAC and Windows PC” Shared Drive Premier CS6 Test

1)The drive came in preformatted with an NTFS for a Windows PC
2)I mounted the drive on my Windows PC and went through the registration process, then ejected the drive.
3)I then mounted the same drive on a MAC, registered it on the MAC, and went through the MacInstall steps. Note: the install on the MAC includes a Paragon Driver, but it is only functional with the Seagate Drive.
4)I’m copying a 124GB project I started on my MAC to the Seagate Drive. It will take a couple hours for that to happen.

Stay Tuned 🙂

Frank Giardina
17 Video Production

[Chris Borjis]

that sounds about right.

[Frank Giardina]

5) When the project was done copying over I opened it on the Seagate drive with no issues.
6) Downloading the Cloud to my laptop now.

Stay Tuned 🙂

Frank Giardina
17 Video Production

[Frank Giardina]

7) Launched Premiere, opened the project and all is well! I’m a happy camper!!
8) The only glitch was it has to re-render.
9) Next will be doing some editing, save and open on my MAC and see where I stand.

Stay Tuned 🙂

Frank Giardina
17 Video Production

[Walter Soyka]

Pardon my late post, but having been cross-platform full time now for nearly a year, I’d suggest you get two pieces of third-party software to cover access on both platforms

Personally, I use Tuxera for NTFS write on the Mac, and I use MacDrive for HFS+ read/write on Windows.

With this setup, any machine in my office can read and write to any disk, irrespective of platform. I don’t need to worry about what format incoming client material is, either. I can just plug an external drives and get to work.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Frank Giardina]

Thanks Walter… sounds good to me. I’m having pretty good luck with the Seagate drive so far, but it doesn’t seem as good an external drive thank what I typically use, which is LaCie

Frank Giardina
17 Video Production

[Walter Soyka]

[Frank Giardina] “Thanks Walter… sounds good to me. I’m having pretty good luck with the Seagate drive so far, but it doesn’t seem as good an external drive thank what I typically use, which is LaCie”

Then I hate to be the one to tell you that Seagate bought LaCie a few months ago…

I had liked Seagate (prior to their bad run a couple years ago) and Hitachi (prior to being bought out by Western Digital). I don’t think it really matters anymore — there are only three hard drive manufacturers left [link].

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events

[Frank Giardina]

Crazy!!! LaCie drives are solid. Should be interesting to see what Seagate comes up with.

Frank Giardina
17 Video Production