Will any external hardrive work with my macbook?

I was wondering if any plug and play hardrive will work with my MacBook? I heard that it needs to be in FAT32 not NTFS. If its in NTFS how do convert it to FAT32?

Pretty much any drive will work as USB and FW are industry standards and not particular to any one platform. I would still seek out a good quality drive and enclosure that features the Oxford 911 or other Oxford chipset for mazimum reliability.
FAT32 is a file format that Macs and PCs have in common and they both can read and write to FAT32 drives. NTFS can be read by Macs, but nt written to. If you plan on using a drive between Macs and PCs and the files on that drive will not be larger than 4GB, then you should choose FAT32. If you will be using this drive only with Macs, then use the HFS+ format.

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