fat32 is stupid if u plan on anything video related as the filesize limit is 4gb or something.

What format do you recommend?

isnt ntfws the common windows format? mac has something else, HFS or something.

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HFS+ This is the principal file system of Mac OS X. It is a journalled, relatively modern file system that supports POSIX permissions, and features at least limited automatic defragmenting of files. Mac OS X is capable of mounting these volumes for reading and writing, and has full capabilities to utilize them. Mac OS X systems can also only boot from hard disks formatted in this system (as well as bootable optical media). Windows has no native support for this format, but third party tools such as MacDrive allow for limited read/write support on Windows systems. NTFS This is the current preferred file system of Windows (beginning predominance circa Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000, and including Windows XP). Most Windows systems use principle partitions with this file system. This is a journalled file system with good support for large files. It should be noted that it does NOT support POSIX permissions or ownership. Mac OS X has read only support for this format. It has no capabilities to write to an NTFS drive. Windows has complete read/write capabilities for this format. FAT32 FAT32 is a legacy file system in the Windows world. However, it is still widely used as almost all Flash-based drives use this format. Mac OS X supports this format for both reading and writing, as does Windows. It has notable limitations, including difficulties with files of size larger than 4 GB. Also, as with NTFS, this file system does not support POSIX and permission / ownership errors could arise when files are moved back and forth between this file system and a POSIX-compliant file system. exFAT exFAT, also known as FAT64, is a newer file system developed with the simplicity of FAT in mind, and also to alleviate the FAT32 limits. Mac OS X 10.6.5 and later versions have full read/write support for it. Unlike FAT32, it does NOT have a 4GB single file limit. However, Linux support for exFAT is poor to nonexistent. Also, as with NTFS, this file system does not support POSIX and permission / ownership errors could arise when files are moved back and forth between this file system and a POSIX-compliant file system.

maybe exFAT as it goes between both mac and windows?

edit: btw what do you plan to do? video mixes?

Live performances instead of spinning tunes ill spun video. I use technics ttm57sl and serato on a macbook pro now. I dont plan on using a pc to dj so maybe ill just use the mac format for my external.


Back to the original question. What brand and specs for my external hardrive?

u nean Rane?

yes just use HFS+ journaled case sensitive. id get two 2TB discs instead of one 4TB to be sure. and mirror them every week incase of crash.

i think you even can set them up as software-raid in OS X so theyll be identicall at all time, but i never tried it. try with a couple of small HDs first maybe? two usb powered 500gb discs just to get some experience before going in bigtime wiht big discs?

do you have USB3 on your mac btw? maybe you should wait for thunderbolt too. i dont know everything seems so short end of life cycle lately. firewire is considered end of life now, and it fucking irritates me that they phase out a format before a new one is properly introduced.