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It can happily read from an attached drive like the Canvio, but it can’t write to it.

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The catch here is that some apps that haven’t yet been updated to Marshmallow don’t know how to make that request. Be aware too that Android now (since the Marshmallow update) by default denies all apps write access to external storage unless they request it and you approve the request. Down in the system settings you’ll need to acknowledge the new drive as “Removable”, otherwise the Shield will want to completely reformat it. There are a few hoops to jump through first. The surprise was that I could also wire the Canvio into my 16GB nVidia Shield, which also recognises HFS+. An instant extra 998GB capacity (a little is lost in the filesystem structure). I much prefer an adapter with a flexible connecting cable between the socket and the plugīut with my MacBook Air, the HFS+ formatted Canvio Premium needed no extra software and was simply plug-and-play, as you’d expect.

These single-form adapters (the Toshiba-supplied one is on the right) risk putting too much physical leverage onto the small connector. Thanks to (full disclosure) Tuxera’s generosity towards Tested Technology, this is the NTFS drive I now regularly use on my Macs, and can certainly recommend it as a solid and reliable aid to interoperability. Toshiba actually includes Tuxera free of charge, but only with the Windows version of the Canvio Premium.

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The Tuxera NTFS driver is a little more expensive than Paragon’s version, but claims to offer the fastest NTFS file transfer speeds.

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You can find full details of all three approaches here. There are also at least two paid-for proprietary NTFS add-ons, from Paragon and Tuxera. Confident geeks can avail themselves of a somewhat hairy fix based on the free software Macfuse package.

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So for full interoperability between Windows and the Mac a drive like the Canvio Premium will need Mac OS to be running an additional filesystem add-on. However, Apple never quite got round to making NTFS writable under Mac OS. Introduced in the mid-80s as a spin-off from the ill-fated IBM/Microsoft OS/2 project, NTFS (it stands for “New Technology File System”) is a Windows proprietary format can be read by all modern Macs. If you’re swapping a Canvio drive between Windows and Mac it might be better to reformat it to NTFS (or just buy the Windows version, which is already NTFS-formatted). HFS+ is a proprietary format, and its drives can’t be read on Windows systems without special additional drivers. A USB 3 to USB C adapter also comes with the drive for connection to newer Macintoshes. The shirt-pocket-sized drive weighs just 250g and connects to your computer via the supplied USB 3 cable. HFS was enhanced to the Plus version in the late ’90s to accommodate long file names and much larger file sizes. THIS 1TB VERSION OF THE CANVIO PREMIUM (capacities go up to 3TB within the same form factor) is the model intended for the Apple Mac, and arrives ready formatted as HFS+, the Hierarchical File System originally introduced by Apple in the mid-80s. Wheel on the Toshiba Canvio Premium Portable drive. My current MacBook Air hosts a solid state drive (SSD) that’s physically an eighth of the size and over 50,000 times the data capacity.īut, as I say, you can never have enough storage. My first hard drive, back in the early ’80s, was a Seagate ST-506, its massive capacity of 5MB (yes, that’s MEGAbytes) being a snip at around £3,500 in today’s money.

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