Will this meet these specs:Minimum Speed 7200 RPM with 8MB Buffer1 Firewire port, and 1 USB 2 or USB 3 portformatted as Mac OS extended
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If your MAC is equipped with a USB 3 port use it to connect the drive. Ignore Firewire. If you only have a USB2 port available, use Firewire. Fastest connection possible is USB 3 with current technology!
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Yes I believe so should all be in the specs. I have had no trouble with the drive, Seems very reliable using it with my macbook retina.
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Why don't you call g-technology customer service, they're very helpful. I know it has FireWire and USB ports, 7200 I believe is the speed, it's not variable. Don't know of a buffer rating. These drives are good for video, although the market(mac) is moving away from FireWire
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If you go to rog.asus.com...four Super-Speed USB 3.0 ports, HDMI, mini-DisplayPort, VGA (d-sub), Gigabit Ethernet, an SD/MMC slot and 3.5mm headphone and microphone.no firewire. the mini-display port is NOT thunderbolt capable, but does support HDCP and DVI.
199586
Thunderbolt is the fastest and best option to go with. Firewire is half the speed of it. So if your mac has thunderbolt use it. But make sure your mac has it before buying it.
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I'm using two of these, one with a Toshiba drive the other with a Seagate drive, both using Firewire on an iMac. I have had no problems with either one.
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I can't tell if there is more than one version, but this one specifically is a USB 3.0, which means it does not go into Firewire
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It is bus powered using the FireWire 800 to Thunderbolt. It's very fast and flawless. I use it with my 2012 Mac Mini. The company was bought late last year so I would buy one now !
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YES IT WILL BUT LET ME TELL YOU A WARNING MY FRIEND USB 1 YUST TRANFERS AT LEAST 12MB/S WHILE USB 2 400MB/S, SOMETIMES THE DRIVE WILL EVEN NOT WORK DURINFG LONG TRANSFERS AND IT INTERRUMPTS THE TRANSFERS WHIEL YOU WHERE WAITING FOR THAT LONG VIDEO THAT TOOK YOU HOURS TO DOWNLOAD OR WHATERVER AND THEN WHREN YOU TRY TO TRANSFERS AT AT LEAST IN THE END I WILL BE INTERRUPTED, IF YOU WANNA USE USB 1 DONT TRANSFER MORE THAN 100 MBS YES THATS THE TRUTH UNFORTUNATELY, WHY DONT YOU GET A USB 2 CARD? OR A FIREWIRE 800 CARD? ITS YUST LIKE 30-50 DOLLARS AND IT WILL WORK I PROMISE. IM A MY BOOK PRO 500 GB OWNER HOPE THAT IVE HELPED
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Your Mac mini should have 4 USB3 ports and 1 800 FireWire port. For USB, the answer should be yes, 2 ports on the Mac mini (1 used for each hub). For FireWire, you will need adapters. The FireWire port is 400 (6 pin) on the hubs and 800 (9 pin) on the Mac mini, so 1 800 to 600 (9 to 6 pin) adapter will allow FireWire to work on one (1) of the hubs. You will also need a thunderbolt to FireWire 400 (6 pin) adapter for the second hub's FireWire ports to work as well. Caution, not sure if thunderbolt to FireWire adapters pass power to the hub, so FireWire devices will most likely need their own power source. Your Mac mini should have 4 USB3 ports and 1 800 FireWire port. For USB, the answer should be yes, 2 ports on the Mac mini (1 used for each hub). For FireWire, you will need adapters. The FireWire port is 400 (6 pin) on the hubs and 800 (9 pin) on the Mac mini, so 1 800 to 600 (9 to 6 pin) adapter will allow FireWire to work on one (1) of the hubs. You will also need a thunderbolt to FireWire 400 (6 pin) adapter for the second hub's FireWire ports to work as well. Caution, not sure if thunderbolt to FireWire adapters pass power to the hub, so FireWire devices will most likely need their own... » Read More Your Mac mini should have 4 USB3 ports and 1 800 FireWire port. For USB, the answer should be yes, 2 ports on the Mac mini (1 used for each hub). For FireWire, you will need adapters. The FireWire port is 400 (6 pin) on the hubs and 800 (9 pin) on the Mac mini, so 1 800 to 600 (9 to 6 pin) adapter will allow FireWire to work on one (1) of the hubs. You will also need a thunderbolt to FireWire 400 (6 pin) adapter for the second hub's FireWire ports to work as well. Caution, not sure if thunderbolt to FireWire adapters pass power to the hub, so FireWire devices will most likely need their own power source. « Show Less
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Hi, thanks for your email, yes if your Mac has Firewire port. Take care, Norman. 310-968 0555 east coast
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Yes, at least mine were using Firewire. This one also has Firewire and a USB 3.0 port, while earlier models do not. That worked out great for connecting USB 3.0 to a new 5k iMac, which is faster than FW anyway; but my older ones cannot as the 5k iMac has no Firewire port.
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From slow to fast: FireWire is 800Mbps, USB 3.0 5Gbps, Thunderbolt is 10Gbps (or 1.25GB/s) - In this case, FireWire is the slowest interface of the group.
1970201
Yes, a Western Digital 1 TB Black Caviar drive with Snow Leopard should be able to boot from this easily over Firewire, if it is formatted with a GUID Partition Table.
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I have no idea whether or not works with a firewire. I use mine with usb3 and a pc. My son uses one with a mac and usb2 w/o problems.
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it's currently running absolutely fine on mountain lion using firewire 800...so i'm guessing lion would be covered too :)
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Greetings Brian, no. USB 3.0 is the most recent version of USB. You will have to have a newer Mac to get the full USB 3.0 speeds with this drive. I have a Mid-2010 iMac and it has USB 2 as well as a Firewire 800 port. I use the Firewire port for this drive and it works fine to watch movies and such. It has the option for USB2 as well and I have another one of these drives using the USB 2.0. In honesty it works fine to watch movies off of as well.
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It is not specified in any information included with the drive , nor anything I see on-line at WDC.com. Probably a 5,400 RPM drive but it doesn't really matter. The drive is intended for backing up data not for high performance data access. The slowest link will determine the transfer speed so the USB controller on your computer will be a limiter. It took me over 5 1/2 hours to copy 622 GB to this unit. It held close to a 30 MB/sec rate on a USB 2 port. About the same results for a Firewire 800 connection I have used on other tests on other (faster drives). My suggestion is ... don't worry about the RPMs. If you need backup space this will work well.
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I think you'll get faster transfers with Gigabit ethernet switch; depending on the write/read speeds, I get even more than 100MB/s via ethernet connection. Also I'm not sure whether one can connect two Macs for file transfer via TB/firewire; I've only tried connecting Macs in this manner for target disk mode and for that it works well.