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    External or "Expansion" hard drive for Mac

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by dnd2984, Apr 3, 2013.

  1. dnd2984

    dnd2984 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Wife and I just both bought Macs and I would like to get some more storage.

    I was looking on amazon and saw the description on the seagate Expansion drive. Is expansion something new? The reason for the drive will be music and pictures.

    I take it I can play music off of the drive without any issue?

    Any help would be great! Thanks
     
    dnd2984, Apr 3, 2013
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  2. mikeyhd

    mikeyhd Notebook Consultant

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    for seagate Expansion drive, is it an external USB?

    It work for itunes as long it's there when you launch itunes
     
    mikeyhd, Apr 3, 2013
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  3. Vogelbung

    Vogelbung I R Judgemental

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    Any drive works the same in Fisher-Price as it does in Windows. The Mac versions would come preformatted as HFS and not NTFS. You'll need to do the same contortions in iTunes in terms of consolidating your iTunes library contents to an external drive, but again this is the same on both platforms.

    This might come in useful: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12165?viewlocale=en_US
     
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