portable ssd for mac and pc

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  1. robbieeparker14

    robbieeparker14 Producer

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    im wondering if its possible to have a ssd with portable versions of all my plugins that works for both mac and pc.

    i dont want to run into format issues manily i know ill need a mac version of the files and pc version, but im wondering if anyone else has tried this and what to avoid.

    thanks.
     
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  3. arhythmtech

    arhythmtech Member

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    be careful with "exFAT"

    macOS Sonoma does not support exFAT. i just had an exFAT drive get corrupted from updating to Sonoma. quite a few people have had this issue and Apple has done nothing to even address it.

    you could split the drive into 2 partitions. format windows partition as NTFS. format macOS partition as APFS.

    that's what i would do in your situation.

    double check your operating system versions are compatible with each format
     
  4. clone

    clone Audiosexual

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    I would not do this. You are just asking for problems. The amount of my time and effort putting together an external disk all setup the way I want it; is worth far more to me than the $100 or so you might save by putting it on one drive instead of using two. Never mind any data you might lose the first time something goes wrong. I would give this idea a hard pass.
     
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    jaypolar7856 Noisemaker

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    I've been using Samsung T7 on both my laptop and my macbook and had no problems yet. but maybe it'll mess up one day idk lol
     
  6. robbieeparker14

    robbieeparker14 Producer

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    What format is yout T7 in? exfat or NTFS?
     
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