Storage Solutions External HDD which work out of the box for windows as well as mac os

[princeoo7]

Looking to buy one Hard Drive which will work out of the box with windows and macOS as well. Nothing much to discuss more I think as I have no idea on what to buy

 

[vaibhavyagnik]

It is a matter of in which file system the hard disk is formatted in, rather than which hard disk. As long as the hard disk is formatted in EX-FAT, both operating systems will be able to read/write from the same hard disk.

 

[D C]

Exfat will work on both windows and Mac. Fat32 also works but will have a file size limit of 4GB and drive size limit of 2TB.
NTFS will be read only on Mac. There are some tools for NTFS support on Mac but are mostly paid.

 

[princeoo7]

It is a matter of in which file system the hard disk is formatted in, rather than which hard disk. As long as the hard disk is formatted in EX-FAT, both operating systems will be able to read/write from the same hard disk.

for EX-FAT what will be the file size allowed ?

 

[D C]

for EX-FAT what will be the file size allowed ?

16 exabytes

exFAT - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

No need to worry(for now)

 

[princeoo7]

Any idea on which brand to go for in this case ? looking for a 2 TB version of external HDD.

 

[vaibhavyagnik]

Any idea on which brand to go for in this case ? looking for a 2 TB version of external HDD.

Go with the brand providing highest warranty

 

[enthusiast29]

Go with the brand providing highest warranty

To add on to this... and lowest price.

 

[princeoo7]

Go with the brand providing highest warranty

what are the failure rates ?