[ddots-l] Re: SSD drives to which a Mac can't write

  • From: Kevin L Gibbs <kevjazz@xxxxxx>
  • To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 17:38:06 -0500

Gord, for some reason, the guy at the studio couldn't do it.  In any event, I 
brought all back to the store and exchanged it for a 500GB firewire drive and 
two 32GB thumb drives.  Even got some money back in the barton.  
K.
On Aug 5, 2012, at 3:56 PM, Gordon Kent wrote:

> You should be able to reformat it on your mac.  I've done that with thumb 
> drives for sure.
> Gord
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Gibbs
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 4:08 AM
> To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: SSD drives to which a Mac can't write
> 
> Had same problem with thumb drive bought at same time.  Mac would not 
> recognize or write to either becAuse, apparently, they were formatted in NTFS.
> K
> 
> BTW, I'm writing here because I need this drive as the primary backup for my 
> Pro Tools Rchive of a new CD.
> K
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Aug 5, 2012, at 2:49 AM, Kevin Gibbs <kevjazz@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Guys,
>> I had a very disappointing experience today. I bought a 128GB SSD drive, 
>> only to learn that a Mac could not write to it.  It was bad enough that I 
>> couldn't find an SSD drive with FireWire ports, but to find a drive that 
>> could only be written to buy a Windows computer?  This was absolutely 
>> unacceptable. Does anyone know of an SSD drive with FireWire ports that can 
>> be used by a Mac?
>> Sent from my iPhone
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