Sharing a drive between Mac and PC?

[Slogan]

Hello all,

Basically I just need a bit of advice on what is the best way to approach this. I have a MacBook Pro which I will be using as my main rig.

I am in the process of constructing together a new PC which will only be used for gaming. I'll be raiding two 150 raptors for the os and the games and that should do me fine.

However, I'd like there to be a big storage drive that could be accessed by both Mac and PC. I could use a storage device like any other external, formatted as Mac OS Extended with the PC running MacDrive (which allows a PC to read and write to that format) but it would mean switching the USB/eSata connection over every time I wanted to use either computer.

Which has sort of lead me to look at the likes of network storage drives. I've looked at the likes of MyBook World drives but the reviews have been horrific. Just had a bit more of a look and it appears the World drives are for remote access - so I might be looking in the wrong sort of market.

What sort of options do I have for this type of thing?

Thanks.

 

[Irish_Tom]

There's a thread about this in Mac Hardware at the moment; have a quick look here.

That's for an external HDD rather than a network storage drive but from that thread it seems like a NTFS formated external drive would be the best option.

I've heard some dodgy things about .Mac as well so for the price I would probably stay clear.

If you wanted networked storage space to use between the two you might be better off looking for a domain name with decent storage limits and using FTP software to switch between computers...

Just a thought.

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