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ASU2003 · 06-28-2011, 09:21 AM

I am looking to get a new hard drive to save OTA HDTV shows and HD video editing on my Mac.

The issue is that I also have a lot of videos on a Linux OS that at a minimum I would like to transfer.

I 'should' be able to setup a wired network to transfer the files from Linux to Mac. But I wouldn't mind being able to access it in Linux as well, but that isn't the primary purpose of it.

I will have files bigger than 4 GB, and the drive is larger than 2TB, so FAT32 is out. I have a 1TB with HFS+ on it, but I was reading that Linux doesn't support HFS+ very well on drives over 2TB. I am still leaning towards HFS+ right now, just because 99% of what I need to do with it will be on Mac OS X.

ext3/4 would require some software on the Mac to work I believe.

NTFS and ReiserFS are two other possibilities that I would need to look into some more. I'm not sure Linux can write to NTFS, but that might have been fixed since the last time I looked into it.

06-28-2011, 09:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
ASU2003 immoral minority Location: Back in Ohio	File Systems on 3TB drive I am looking to get a new hard drive to save OTA HDTV shows and HD video editing on my Mac. The issue is that I also have a lot of videos on a Linux OS that at a minimum I would like to transfer. I 'should' be able to setup a wired network to transfer the files from Linux to Mac. But I wouldn't mind being able to access it in Linux as well, but that isn't the primary purpose of it. I will have files bigger than 4 GB, and the drive is larger than 2TB, so FAT32 is out. I have a 1TB with HFS+ on it, but I was reading that Linux doesn't support HFS+ very well on drives over 2TB. I am still leaning towards HFS+ right now, just because 99% of what I need to do with it will be on Mac OS X. ext3/4 would require some software on the Mac to work I believe. NTFS and ReiserFS are two other possibilities that I would need to look into some more. I'm not sure Linux can write to NTFS, but that might have been fixed since the last time I looked into it.