Macbook Pro Retina

[KiNG07]

Hi everybody,

I'd like to get some info, actually I want to buy a Macbook pro retina 15". So I'd like to know if it'll be possible to connect several hard disk in a sort of Hard disk rack and connect it through eSATA or firewire or even LAN / USB as 500GB inbuilt will not be sufficient when working with lots of items.

And the setup for the multiple hard disks will also be used by a PC both when the Macbook is not connected and both connected at the same time. Thus NTFS / exFAT will be used.

Any thoughts about this setup because size is really important and I'll be sharing lots of stuff between the PC and the MAC.

Thanks in advance.

 

[oldscribe]

Hi,

Re your second question and in my humble opinion if you want to share external drives between a Mac and a Windows machine, you should format the drives with a FAT32 partition. But one major problem, is that you run into a file size limitations if you’re dealing with really large files.
NTFS gets around this limitation, but unfortunately the OS X NTFS driver only supports reading from NTFS partitions not writing to.

 

[Kaveman]

Your port options for external drives are USB 3 or Thunder Bolt.

The retina 15" is all about portability hanging a large array of drives off the back defeats that purpose.

If you want both PC and Mac to access the drive then you're best going for a Network Drive, for most files the Mac will pull them in in short order. Of course never work on files across the network, always bring them local.