mac&pc portable hard drive.?

Q. i have a wd external hd backed up to my mac with time machine. but know i think the square (hd) is huge and looks like a block. i wanna get a portable one. but i dont know witch one to buy because of all the options there is. I wanna get a 500gb that i can back it up to the mac but whenever i dont use my mac i wanna disconected and use it on the pc. is there a difference between. the WD portable hd for mac?
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=579
and the normal one?http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=691

so yea my question is; if i get the Mac formatted portable hd can i still use it on a pc?

Answer
yes u can use hard drive HD in mac as well as on pc i got same problem 2 years back when i bought my Time Capsule anyhow now i use maxter 750 gb (before it was 250gb) external HD with my pc and mac
no problem
dont worry but be sure for potable and external HD u need not to jurk too much as i loss my 250gb HD.

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Western Digital passport portable hard drive with MAC problem?

Q. I put files onto the hard drive from my PC with Windows XP. When I plug it into my MacBook with the latest version of OS X, nothing happens. The light comes on but the hard drive doesnt spin and nothing comes up on the OS X desktop. How do I get this to work?

Answer
The drive is most likely formatted NTFS, which is a proprietary Microsoft format.

You can try using Disk Utility on the Mac to mount it, but even if it works it will be read-only.

If you need to move files back and forth from PC to Mac using this drive, you are better off reformatting it FAT32. Keep in mind though, that FAT32 only supports file sizes up to 4GB.

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