I am not familiar with these drives, but in general you will want to reformat the HD using Disk Utility anyway so whatever format it comes in is sort of irrelevant. Jens On May 15, 2008, at 8:29 AM, alexandre wrote: > i need to buy a 1TB hard drive for archival & backup of my files, > and today i saw that my dealer here is zurich has some pretty good > deals on synology disk stations (i'm interested in the ds107). the > spec sheets say that they are mac compatible. > > does anybody have any experience with these drives? how mac > compatible are they? will i have any file naming issues, since i > suppose this will be a pc-formatted disk? > > any additional information/feed back is welcome! > > kind regards > > alexandre > 17" 2.33ghz ic2d macbook pro / 2.0gb / 160gb / X.5.2 > 24" 2.33ghz ic2d imac / 2.0gb / 250gb / X.4.11 Jens Selvig ...Lost in Montana...