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Awesome, a very buitifil parody of the "Think Different" poem.

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How to reformat a new external hard disk for Macs

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Or: How to stop doing it wrong. How to Reformat a New External Hard Disk over at TidBITS is one of the more useful and surprising technical articles I've seen in a while; it seems that the simple way many of us have been reformatting drives with Disk Utility is not the ideal way to go about it. Take a read and get educated.

And if you're not a regular reader of TidBITS, you should be!

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