Has anyone used the WD My Passport 2TB for Mac and the Toshiba Canvio 2TB for an iMac? Any preference and why?
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The Toshiba is really good product. It is fast and also includes cloud storage. I have put tons of videos and songs/documents on it and still have 95% of the space available. I have backed up my entire life on this
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sorry for the long delay getting back to you. In my case, actually my son's iMac, it was much less than compatible. The performance with DISK UTILITY backup was very poor (15 times worse than expected) and it was not recognizable as a boot device. So, I can't provide a positive endorsement for the Seagate and iMac.
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If it helps, I have two of them. One I use in the MACBOOK AIR and IMAC and the other in SONY video camera and CANNON T3I. THEY ARE FLAWLESS. As for the NTFS question, I believe you are OK but I have not personally tried it directly.
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My 4TB drive is used as a backup drive in a Mac Pro computer (I have four internal drives). The first drive was faulty but it was promptly replaced by Western Digital and the replacement now works without any problems.
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I was wondering the same thing, and read this review:I've been wanting an external for a long time, but the price just wasn't right. Caught this during the holidays and couldn't pass it up. Being it's my first external, I have nothing to compare it to, but I am pleased with my purchase. Great portability, lightweight, and big amount of storage. I was worried about compatibility with a Mac, but it works seamlessly between Mac and PC. Would consider purchasing another in the future. Also, the same item is at Wal-Mart and on the product page it states that it IS supported by both Mac and PC formats. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/allReviews.do?product_id=10992462 Hope this helps! I was wondering the same thing, and read this review:I've been wanting an external for a long time, but the price just wasn't right. Caught this during the holidays and couldn't pass it up. Being it's my first external, I have nothing to compare it to, but I am pleased with my purchase. Great portability, lightweight, and big amount of storage. I was worried about compatibility with a Mac, but it works seamlessly between Mac and PC. Would consider purchasing another in the future. Also, the same item is at Wal-Mart and on the product page it states that it IS supported by... » Read More I was wondering the same thing, and read this review:I've been wanting an external for a long time, but the price just wasn't right. Caught this during the holidays and couldn't pass it up. Being it's my first external, I have nothing to compare it to, but I am pleased with my purchase. Great portability, lightweight, and big amount of storage. I was worried about compatibility with a Mac, but it works seamlessly between Mac and PC. Would consider purchasing another in the future. Also, the same item is at Wal-Mart and on the product page it states that it IS supported by both Mac and PC formats. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/allReviews.do?product_id=10992462 Hope this helps! « Show Less
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I am looking for an external hard drive to back up my entire lap top hard drive, in case of failure. Is the Passport Essential the unit I am looking for?
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I hooked my LaCie d2 Quadras to my mid 2010 iMac using the cords with the external drives into the firewire port of my iMac. I do use one of them for my TimeMachine backup, and it works quite well.
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My use of this drive has been exclusively on the Mac. However, I did not use any of the back-up software or formatting provided on the drive. It was necessary to use the Mac disk utility to reformat the drive. Then it worked with Apple's Time Machine.
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Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups...I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner.BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable!Fingers crossed on reliability,Yikesboy
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I actually returned this HD. Wasn't reliable and would read on and off. I had a Mac though. I prefer the passport 2TB. Much smaller/more reliable
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Amazon have been sending me the WD20EARS-00MVWB0!If you do buy it, please buy it thru my Amazon Store, its the same price and I get a small kickback from the sale.http://astore.amazon.com/brisperpag-20/detail/B002ZCXK0IGreat drive btw, use this for my main data partition and for an external backup drive on many servers.
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Yes. I bought this item this year for my Mac Book Air which runs with OSX Mavericks. My WD My Passport works perfectly and haven't had any problem since.
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Yes. I have had no trouble using it with my mac computers. Be sure to buy the one made for mac. However, Western Digital My Passport comes in 2 TB for about the same price. The U32 is not significanty smaller, both are available in USB 3.0 for Mac, etc
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Yes. I used the drive for photo backups while on a trip using a pc laptop and then transferred those photos to my iMac upon my return home. All worked well.
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I am using 2.5" WD Blue's. Seem to be working fine. My issue with the Drobo Mini is I use it with a Mac Mini and the drives won't hibernate. I have the setting in the Drobo dashboard checked. I have seen comments in the Apple forums that this is an issue with Mavericks and Firewire but nothing about Lightning connections. This may be a deal breaker for me.
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I have a MacBookPro 17" Model A1229 from late 2007 with both Firewire 800 and 400. I use Firewire 800 to my Passport 1TB purchased from Amazon several months ago. I have it set to do auto Time Machine Backups every day. Never any problems. The new USB 3.0 is 600MB/s, Firewire 800 is 75MB/s, USB 2.0 is 60MB/s, and Firewire400 is 50MB/s. Firewire 400 will work fine, and is still offered as an option on the new drives. Good luck, hope this helps. Bill Rhodes
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I use the LaCie Posche design drive with my iMac (2011 model), which only has USB 2.0 ports, and the drive works just fine.