Re: Flash Drives for Mac Notebooks?

In article <hdWdnT-Lca-CLgPZnZ2dnUVZ_sKdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tim Lance
<lance_1012@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All work. It's been my experience that they are best formatted for Windows as
Mac OS X reads/writes to Windows format and chances are the drive will prove
useful once in a while on a Windows machine,

True, but it is MUCH slower to read and write to them when formatted
for Windows. I did this for a couple years before trying out a flash
drive formatted for Mac, and couldn't believe the difference.

Now my primary flash drive is formatted for Mac, and I keep a smaller
one formatted for Windows around for the rare occasion that I need to
move back and forth between different machines. If it's rare that
she'll need to do this, I'd just buy a really cheap 256MB drive for
Windows compatibility, and get a 1 or 2 GB drive for Mac.

_d
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