Anders - good point. I've never bought drives because they were 'for mac' - a drive's a drive - you can always format it to whatever you want. I suppose if you're interested in the 'included demo software' maybe you'd care about the platform - but that's never been a consideration for me when buying drives. 

Buying USB 3, however, is a must, even if you don't currently have anything that can run USB 3. Future proof it. 

BTW I've been using Paragon for NTFS drives for years now and it's solid. 

Hope that helps!

// jayse

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On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Anders Sundstedt <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Thank you Warren for that detailed and easy to understand answer.

So knowing that, is there any good reason really to by a "for mac" USB drive really then like a Western Digital USB one "for mac" if you might as well buy one for PC and format it for Mac?

Also, can you format a USB NTFS drive on Mac OS X to a different format so you can read/write?

Thanks,

Anders

-----Original Message----- From: Warren Heaton
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 6:52 PM

To: After Effects Mail List
Subject: Re: [AE] AE on a laptop vs iMac

Hi Anders:

I don't think that anyone chimed in on your drive format question yet.

If the the Window/PC USB hard drive is formatted as FAT32 or ExFAT, Mac OS
X will read and write. If the drive is NTFS, Mac OS X will read only;
however, a third party driver called Paragon NTFS for Mac will enable full
read/write with NTFS formatted drives
(http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/).

Windows runs well via Apple Bootcamp (not so well with Parallels), if you
happen to need a Windows machine in addition to just mounting Windows
formatted drives. Also, if you're using CC, it's possible to have AE, PR,
PS and AI on he Windows side of a Mac as well.



-Warren



On 6/28/14 4:07 AM, "Anders Sundstedt" <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

A basic question regarding going for a MacBook Pro:

Can you connect PC/Windows USB hard drives to a MacBook Pro and access
the
files on it (read/write)?

Thanks
Anders

-----Original Message-----
From: KO MARUYAMA
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 8:18 AM
To: After Effects Mail List
Subject: Re: [AE] AE on a laptop vs iMac

Chris,

I was in the same boat.  I love working on my older 15" MBP.
Bring the project to the studio to do the heavy lifting.

PROS: portable, attach thunderbolt as necessary (storage/monitor), bring
work anywhere
CONS: expensive, not as powerful, bring work everywhere

Ae, Pr and even C4D run well enough on it, but big renders should get
ported
to a desktop.

Ko
MBP 15"
2.7GHz i7
16GB RAM



On Jun 27, 2014, at 11:22 PM, Chris Zwar <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Just picking the collective brains of the list...

I have never had a laptop or any sort of portable computer, my home
machine has been an iMac for the past 10years. My current imac has just
died and I'm now thinking about replacing it with a MacBook Pro and a
big
monitor.

In the past I have worked from home considerably but currently I do
very
little work from home, and so having a powerful desktop machine seems a
bit old fashioned.  The portability of a MacBook versus an iMac is very
appealing. Storage is not an issue because I already use an external
storage system anyway.

Any thoughts on the pros/cons of working with AE on a laptop-
specifically
a retina MacBook Pro - versus an iMac?

- Chris

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