MAC and PC compatibility.

[JSt0rm]

Originally Posted by jujufactory

I edited on Premiere Win7 and the sound people use MAC. We need to go back and forth with a common drive. What is the OS that is compatible with Mac? Fat 32? What is the best way to connect to MAC? SATA 2? USB 3? Thank you.

if you install hfs+ drivers on your windows machine you will be able to read/write to hfs+ AFAIK very robust hfs+ drivers were/are included with the protools installation but I havent installed protools on a windows system in a few years.

[UnderTow]

Originally Posted by JSt0rm

if you install hfs+ drivers on your windows machine you will be able to read/write to hfs+ AFAIK very robust hfs+ drivers were/are included with the protools installation but I havent installed protools on a windows system in a few years.

They still are.

And of course FAT32 will be recognized by both OSes.

Alistair

[philper]

I have Mac Drive on all my PCs, and they read Mac drives fine.

philp

[JSt0rm]

Originally Posted by UnderTow

They still are.

And of course FAT32 will be recognized by both OSes.

Alistair

fat32's problem is 32gb limited size. Moving pro-res around on that would be

[maddog]

Fat32 is the old school way of Doing things. If you have windows 7 format your dives to exfat. You can mount on both systems and gives great performance. I would recomend this over fat 32. I've been using it successfully