On Apr 28, 2010, at 6:57 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:
did you format it?
Yes they all come FAT 32 so for a Mac it needs to be formated. I
just never had one so slow, I thought they're all the same in that
respect.
Actually no they don't. OS X reads/writes FAT32 devices just fine, and
the format will make no difference in how fast it works.
The only two reasins to format it HFS are:
1) Keep nosy PC users from seeing what's on your device, maybe.
2) Setting one up as a bootable device, which probably also requires
re-partitioning them.
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