Can you recommend an External Hard Drive that is compatible with Mac Catalina 10.15 and Windows simultaneously? I like to use my hard drive on both my PC and Mac. Thank you!

Can you recommend an External Hard Drive that is compatible with Mac Catalina 10.15 and Windows simultaneously? I like to use my hard drive on both my PC and Mac. Thank you!

Posted on Feb 19, 2020 1:24 PM

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Posted on Feb 19, 2020 1:27 PM

Any external drive will work. You need to format it to a compatible format that works with both OSs. ExFat can be read/write with both Windows and Macs. Be aware that Time Machine won't work with a drive formatted ExFat.

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Feb 19, 2020 1:27 PM in response to Kayleen Bailey

Any external drive will work. You need to format it to a compatible format that works with both OSs. ExFat can be read/write with both Windows and Macs. Be aware that Time Machine won't work with a drive formatted ExFat.

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