Will this drive work with Firewire 800?
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Not this variant. Only the My Passport Studio works with Firewire 800. This particular variant of the My Book Studio comes only with 1 USB 3.0/2.0 slot. It's not a regular looking USB slot either. Scroll to the produce description to see how the USB looks like.
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you must have a firewire port. USB ports will not work.in addition, your firewire chipset must be ti compatible.
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Yes, use the usb3 port on the drive left of the firewire ports http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822154548
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Yes & No. For internal you need a 2.5" drive. If you put in an enclosure (like I did) you can attach via firewire or USB and will work just fine.
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YES - the new Mini's FW800 port is compatible with FW400 devices. Firewire is basically a serial SCSI protocol. Like SCSI - you can daisy chain firewire devices together. That's why most FW drives have two firewire ports.For the fastest data transfers - connect any FW800 devices closest to the Mini and FW 400 devices farther down the cable - away from the Mini. That will allow the Mini to communicate with the FW800 drives at 800 mbps speeds, and the FW400 will communicate with the last FW800 device at 400 mbps.
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Yes it will, BUT it will only function as a USB 2.0 device, not a USB 3.0 device because your Power PC is not USB 3.0 compatible. USB 3.0 "SuperSpeed" transfers data at a rate of 5 Gigabits per second, Firewire 800 at 800 Megabits per second and USB 2,0 is 480 Megabits per second, so USB 3.0 is about 10 times faster than USB 2.0 (theoretically, it also depends on your CPU speed). Be aware that this drive has only ONE port, so you can't daisy-chain multiple devices. Also, the connector on the drive is a new type - you need the cable the comes with the drive to connect it to a USB port - the old type USB 2.0 cable won't work with this. In summary, it will work with you Power PC, but it won't be any faster than a USB 2.0 drive.
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Yes, it will. There is a 4-pin to standard firewire cable in the retail box.
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Yes, this drive will work with a Mac that does not have a FireWire port if you use Apple's Thunderbolt-to-FireWire adapter.
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The drive has a USB 2.0 port which will work on a Mac or a PC. As Anthony W. advised, format the drive in FAT32 for compatibility with both systems. (I seriously doubt that your Dell computer has a firewire port and USB transfer won't approach the firewire 800 speed, but it should work.) Formatting the drive will probably be easier and faster if you do it on the Mac before connecting to your Dell.Congratulations on upgrading to a Mac.
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This device has three interfaces. A single USB3.0 interface, and two Firewire 800 interfaces. Firewire 800 can connect only to Firewire 400 or Firewire 800.
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There is another enclosure by Acomdata specifically for PATA drives. It only supports USB2.0 connections, not Firewire.
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I have used it on both Mac and PC and have daisy chained it with other drives on FireWire. It will do everything you are asking about here.
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I imagine so, but I cannot confirm. I have mine (the 2 TB model) daisy chained with two older 1TB WD My Studio drives, running into a thunderbolt port, and have had not problems. Comp < 2TB [firewire to thunderbolt] < 1TB [firewire 800] < 1TB [firewire 800]They are really pretty much a plug and play solution, set them up once, and forget em. I wish I would have ponied up the other fifty or so bucks and for the 3TB to run as time machine. Hope this helps.
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Hi Nichole - If you are wanting to use a FireWire 400 device then yes, you will need the thunderbolt to FireWire adapter, which is FireWire 800, and then this adapter to plug your FireWire 400 cable into.
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I thnk it will and the setup should be quite easy. But my drive just stopped working after 1 year of flawless working; and hence all my precious data is at stake. so i wont suggest storing any precious data in this drive
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Yes, firewire works perfectly (on Macs at least, I'm fortunate not to have a windows machine to be able to test this on). Enough power is supplied via the firewire cable to run the drive. USB is a different matter ... a single USB cable from a Belkin hub attached to my Mac Mini will NOT spin the drive up. The light goes on, but the drive never mounts and it remains invisible on 'Disk Utility'. I was worried this would be the same story on my laptop ... however, a single USB cable works just fine with a 2 year old MacBook Pro. I suspect that it depends how much power the USB delivers, and that newer machines may deliver sufficient. So, USB doesn't suck ... it just depends what you attach it to. I've tried this on a Belkin hub attached to my Mac Mini and on a 15" MacBook Pro.
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Yes, the drive has two FireWire 800 ports that can be used to daisy chain to other drives.