New external HD Buffalo 1TB

My external is 2 500g hard drives and is preset for FAT32



I want to be able to put files bigger than 4gs on it, so I have to change it to NTFS, right?



The wall I run into is . . . I will be buying a Macbook Pro in a few weeks and I want to be able to use the HD between the two. From what I read it looks like I could do that with FAT32, but not with NTFS.



I want to know the best thing to do so I don't have to reformat my drive later and have this all be a toilet flush.



I really want to prepare for my mac.



Thanks in advance.

macs can read/write NTFS as far as I know.

From what I understand, MACs can read, but not write, NTFS.. without the help of third party drivers.

MacFUSE

anyone have any experience with MacFUSE?

Macs can actually not write to NTFS natively you have to use third party to do it.



Google search ntfs.progs, NTFS 3G, or the previously mentioned Mac FUSE.



However that is for native access. You see OS X uses Samba (SMB) to read/write/execute to network shares. You can format that external hard drive into any format you want to, NTFS, ext3, reiser, whatever and use SMB to connect to it.



Samba pretty much supports any file system. So your best bet is to just share it over the network and then every computer can access it.



Good call on the Macbook Pro. I love mine, they are the best laptops currently being produced IMHO.