There are some Thunderbolt drives out there, but they tend to be a bit more expensive. If you take a look at Amazon or just do a Google search for Thunderbolt external hard drives, you will get an idea of their costs. They tend to be around twice or more the cost of USB HDs.
Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Apr 14, 2013, at 7:02 PM, "Jesus Garcia" <jesusga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay thanks I thought that format issues may be the problem, but since the > thumb drives and SD cards have no problem I thought perhaps the external > hard drives behaved the same. I am considering purchasing a thunder bolt > capable drive to use exclusively with the Mac any ideas as to which would be > best? My mac book pro hard drive is 360 gig so I don't need more than a 500 > Gig drive. > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Panarese > Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 18:37 > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: External Hard Drive question > > Was the drive formatted in Windows? If it is NTFS, it will only be read > only on the Mac. You will need to buy a product like Paragon NTFS to enable > the Mac to write to NTFS formatted drives. > > > Take Care > > John D. Panarese > Director > Mac for the Blind > Tel, (631) 724-4479 > Email, j...@macfortheblind.com > Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com > > APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION > > AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE > > MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > > > > On Apr 14, 2013, at 5:43 PM, Jesus Garcia <jesusga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Evening list members, I have a puzzle I can create folders, and copy files > perfectly fine to a thumb drive, SD card, but when I try doing the same to > an external hard drive I cannot do so. The drives both appear in the finder, > and I can open the folder and file list view, but I cannot create a folder > or copy from the Mac hard drive to the external. These external drives are > USB drives and I would like to use them both on my Mac book pro and on my > windows machine. What am I missing? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
