<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The USB drives should work but you probably should reformat them using disk utility to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; ">Mac OS Extended (Journaled) since in all likelihood it is shipped as FAT 32 to make it compatible with both MAC and PCs.</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div><div>Gerhard</div><div><a href="mailto:gerhardk@mac.com">gerhardk@mac.com</a></div><div><br></div></div><br></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On 2010-02-18, at 9:54 PM, Patty Winter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I was in Best Buy today and took a minute to look at some 1TB (and<br>larger) drives. Both the ones I looked at said they were for Mac<br>OS X v10.3 or later. Does that actually matter if all one wants to<br>do is hook it up and transfer files to it? Or is the system software<br>version only important if you want to use the utilities that come<br>with the drive?<br><br><br>Patty<br>_______________________________________________<br>MacDV mailing list<br><a href="mailto:MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a><br>http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>