Any Network Harddrive for Mac & PC

[Denaes]

My wife has a Titanium Powerbook with OSX.

I have a Dell Inspirion with windows XP.

 

Our wedding video is on my harddrive in UNCOMPRESSED avi format (pt 1 is 16gig and pt 2 is 10gig).

 

Her hard drive isn't even large enough to hold both movie files AND edit them at the same time.

 

We saw these network Hard drives, you plug it into your hub and computers can access them.

 

What I didn't notice was if there are any a PC AND Mac can access at the same time (or one after the other without reformatting the hard drive?)

 

Right now my Archos MP3 player (10gb hard drive) with it's FAT filesystem has been our link together for copying, sharing and backing up files, but as you can see, the 'lil trooper just can't handle this workload.

[PlausiblyDamp]

Ignore the actual websites - it's just the devices your need to look at.

http://www.cluboverclocker.com/reviews/drives/hard_drives/seagate_usb/

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_slc.asp?CatId=136

[Denaes]

Ignore the actual websites - it's just the devices your need to look at.

http://www.cluboverclocker.com/reviews/drives/hard_drives/seagate_usb/

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_slc.asp?CatId=136

 

I know most any hard drive can run on a mac or PC, but normally they need formatting or specialized drivers.

 

Thats the problem with the internet. They can advertise something vague, then if you buy it, it's a huge hassle to return it because it's not what you needed.

 

I need something I can either plug into the network and both computers (PC and Mac) can access, or as USB 2.0 device which I can plug into my PC, unplug and plug into the Mac.

 

Now those links showed a 160gb hard drive for $250!? I assume it has special magical properties that might allow that for this price. Most comparable hard drives (without the three methods of I/0; 1 USB2, 2 FireWire) cost about half as much.

 

The hard drive I currently have is a 160gb external USB2.0 Western Digital. It is both Mac and PC compatable, but when I plug it into the mac it wants me to reformat it before I can use it.

 

OS X seems to be able to view two or three Mac file formats and Unix (no surprise).

 

I'll give some of these places a call and see if it can handle Mac/PC compatability simultaniously