External hard drive for backup of Mac & PC files

[firewired]

I am currently using MBox Pro, Pro Tools 8 on a Macbook Pro laptop. Until this purchase I had never used a Mac computer, so all of my other software programs and files are in Windows. I will continue to use the Windows side through Bootcamp for most all of my other applications. I'd like to find an external hard drive of around 1 TB for backing up both my Mac recordings and Windows documents.

I already use a Glyph external HD for recording. As a stop gap I'm copying files from the Glyph to my Mac hard drive.

Is it possible to partition the drive to accept both Mac and Windows files? I've found that the Seagate external HD I have now doesn't recognize the Mac files since it is formatted as NTFS.

Are there any external HDs you recommend for this situation? I was thinking that it would be nice to have it running at 7200 RPM with a firewire connection for transfer speed and in case my Glyph bombed out on me, but that's not critical.

Firewired

[TOM@METRO]

If you use MacDrive you can save and access PC files to Mac formatted drives.

[dvrooman]

The only drawback I've seen with MacDrive is that it can't handle files over 4GB. In that sense, in windows, your drive will act more like a FAT32 drive than NTFS. On the plus side, though, I never have problems with illegal characters in file names using MacDrive whereas I've had problems using FAT32 formated drives.

[firewired]

Thanks for the info on MacDrive. Since I want to access files from Mac to PC rather than PC to Mac this won't work for me. So now I'm looking for a good, reliable external hard drive to back up my recording files from my Macbook Pro laptop. I'd like to find one with at least Firewire connection with around 1 TB of space.

My research hasn't come up with any external hard drive that seems very reliable. This is the hard drive I have been considering. It was mentioned on another post in this forum - http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western+...tern%20digital

There doesn't appear to be any reviews on it anywhere. The closest I can find is the 1.0 TB version on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...rBy=addOneStar. There are as many one-star reviews as there are five!

Does anyone out there have any have any good or bad experiences on external hard drives used as a backup for Mac files?