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• Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, Windows® XP (32-bit & 64-bit) operating system or
• Operating system Max [sic] OS X 10.4.6 Tiger or higher, 10.5 Leopard or 10.6 Snow Leopard (the 32-bit kernel).
Reformatting for Mac may be required.
• USB 2.0 port


That struck me as really weird, so I did some research and discovered why.

It's not the hard drive or enclosure; the drive works just fine with 32-bit or 64-bot OS X. It's the software on the drive.

The drive comes formatted NTFS (Windows format). It ships with Mac NTFS software that lets you use the drive without reformatting. By default, OS X can read, but not write, NTFS disks. The drive ships with a free OS X driver that lets you both read and write NTFS...but that software only works in OS X in 32-bit mode. Their NTFS driver isn't 64-bit clean.

If you plan to reformat the drive, or you plan to leave it NTFS but use someone else's NTFS software, you're fine. smile


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