Western Digital World Edition HD

[alra111]

I was looking at the WD World Edition HD 1TB at Best Buy yesterday and noticed that the box made no mention whatsoever of Macs. Does anyone know if this drive (or the 2TB model) will work with a Mac?

I checked out the owner's manual online and it makes no mention of Mac.

I just checked out Western Digital's Studio Edition which boasts "Creative Power for Mac"--whatever that means. It states that it comes "Formatted for Macintosh - Set up with HFS+ Journaled formatting for complete Macintosh compatibility. Software included requires Mac® OS X 10.4.8 or later. Can easily be reformatted for Windows 2000/XP/Vista."

I'm wondering if the 2TB World Edition just comes formatted for Windows and can be easily reformatted for OS X. This was the case with my current 500GB Western Digital drive.

Anyone have any info?

Thanks,
Alra111

 

[eric2006]

I would read this:
http://www.comeacross.info/2007/06/25/review-wd-my-book-world-edition-ii/

 

[Satcomer]

Read these HOWTO & FAQs:

How to make your Mac OS X recognize, read, and write to NTFS volumes

[HOWTO] Make Windows see HFS+ formatted drives

Both of these forums tell you some disk applications that you might want/need.