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A storage device attached to a computer, but not enclosed within the computer's casing

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What are the advantages of formatting an external disk as journaled HFS+?

Taking aside the part that says which OS a particular filesystem is associated with, the main point is the word "journaled". I include the following Wikipedia quote as there is no point re-inventing …
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Is it true that any external hard drive made for the PC, can be used by a Mac running Lion?

2 things: 1) They are not "made for" PCs, they may simply come pre-formatted. If they are USB, they will almost certainly work with any OS known to man that supports USB 2) NTFS support is read onl …
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What is the benefit of purchasing a Mac formatted External Hard Drive?

It is interesting to note that Hard Drive Manufacturers use the correct meaning of "Gigabytes" when referring to hard drives, and not what most people think of as a GB which is actually a Gibibyte: …
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