Seagate NAS 220 with iMac iTunes?

Hi,
I have been a PC-guy for a long time and have decided to buy an iMac to replace it (too many maddening problems).
I currently use a Seagate BlackArmor 220 NAS (RAID1) for my iTunes library (which is apparently formatted as NTFS).
Can I use the Seagate NAS with an iMac? Will I be required to reformat the NAS to Mac HFS+ format? Or is the NAS drive formatting irrelevant since it's a network drive?
Thanks,
Kevin

Since the NAS contains, Runs, it's own operating system you should not have a problem using that NAS formatted NTFS with a Mac. The operating system installed on the NAS does all the translations between the formating.
I own a couple of Macs and a few Windows PCs formatted NTFS and have not problem accessing the PCs from my Macs or the Macs from the Win PCs.
I also have a external drive formatted NTFS connected to my router, the router can read and write to the NTFS format, and have no problems copying to or reading from that drive from my Macs.

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