Recent content by Deadlock

Hi. Just to update my earlier post in this thread... I bought a large hockey kit bag - Mazon tour plus combo - the extra space suiting my needs for extra bits. It looks and feels very robust. It has comfortable shoulder straps and wheels. Time will tell but I'm quite optimistic.

Not so much for images. My lightroom preview lrdata file is currently 7.24GB video files backup images of disks. A 15GB compressed backup file of my website. etc Thats not to say fat 32 isn't still handy - just beware of its limitations as I'd personally hit those more often than needing a...

Fair point. Beware the 4GB limit though.

No. Its a backup methodology. A device would be an external hard drive, NAS or server. What you do depends on how careful you want to be and how much you want to spend. First figure on a single hard drive failing. Then figure on a power supply failing affecting all backups on each hard drive...

You can always test it yourself using bootcamp to see if you have a preference.

google gives results like: http://www.howtogeek.com/236055/how-to-write-to-ntfs-drives-on-a-mac/ I just reformatted to mac.

A windows formatted drive can be read by macs but not written to without some third party software.