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NAS drive for both windows and Mac
I am looking for a personal cloud setup in my home.
I was looking to WD My Cloud which is a NAS drive.
But I need to confirm that will it can be used for my windows and MAC pc as I have both
I was looking to WD My Cloud which is a NAS drive.
But I need to confirm that will it can be used for my windows and MAC pc as I have both
The limitation is that the drive will be in Fat32 format, limited to 4 gig file size max. For a person with movies stored on the drive, they would have to be careful of the movie size. You could not copy a virtual disk or encrypted disk file that was larger then 4 gig.
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Hi rogeroren,
I need to ask that mac does not support ntfs file format?
I need to ask that mac does not support ntfs file format?
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That NAS not FAT 32,it's basically a Linux NFS /CIFS emulation that the MAC should have no issues with.
Should work fine.
Should work fine.
http://www.wd.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1140
their My Cloud will work with PCs and with Macs and also with smartphones and tablets.