I have both an iMac and a Macbook Pro. The iMac is 500GB and the Macbook is 350GB. Can I use the G-Drive to download both and partition them?
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I think you saying that you will transfer the data from both macs to this hard drive and then partition the hard drive of both macs and then transfer the information back to the macs. If this is correct, then your answer is yes, you can use this hard drive to help accomplish your end goal.
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I backup at least once a week with time machine. You can backup both macs with time machine or you could make separate folders for each Mac and put the files in the folders accordingly.
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Yes, 1TB equals 1048GB so there's plenty of room for 500+350=850GB of storage.
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You need to determine the "specs" on the current HD in your Mac.....obviously the one critical element is that your current HD is 2.5 Inch size versus 3.5 Inch that is used in most desktops....I am not familiar with Macs since this Western Digital went into a Compaq running Win7. The drive is superb and the price on Amazon the most competitive around. Hope this helps.
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No.. There isn't. You can actually format it to EXT2 partition and use it on both. You could also format it as NTFS and install the NTFS drivers on your MBP and use it on both.
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It really depends on the file format, Windows and Mac have never been known to play well together, so the answer is yes the drive will function on either system, but the files you wish to transfer may turn out to be the problem.
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@Tony I believe you could. You'd have to create two partitions on the drive, one formatted in HFS+ (for Mac) and the other in NTFS (for Windows). I have never done any such thing but it might be worth a try. Of course, as these drives have come so far down in price, why not just buy two, one for Mac and the other for Windows?
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Yes. I added this 8gb pair to the iMac's original 4 gb pair and now have 12 gb. Works great!
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Honestly, You have a out-dated machine...I had a G4 about 4-5 yrs ago... Nevertheless, I'm glad it still works for you though! From my experience, the technology from the g-drive is equipped with 400 firewire, but at times it does not boot-up the G-Drive my imac desktop - but does boot-up to my Macbook pro laptop.. However, when I attach a usb drive to the imac it pops on my desktop in an instant. I think the best option will your computer will be using usb / fire 400. However, call an Apple to really make sense of this.The combination 400/800 drives are too advanced... for your computer. Hope I helped out. SidLocks MultiHop Honestly, You have a out-dated machine...I had a G4 about 4-5 yrs ago... Nevertheless, I'm glad it still works for you though! From my experience, the technology from the g-drive is equipped with 400 firewire, but at times it does not boot-up the G-Drive my imac desktop - but does boot-up to my Macbook pro laptop.. However, when I attach a usb drive to the imac it pops on my desktop in an instant. I think the best option will your computer will be using usb / fire 400. However, call an Apple to really make sense of this.The combination 400/800 drives are too... » Read More Honestly, You have a out-dated machine...I had a G4 about 4-5 yrs ago... Nevertheless, I'm glad it still works for you though! From my experience, the technology from the g-drive is equipped with 400 firewire, but at times it does not boot-up the G-Drive my imac desktop - but does boot-up to my Macbook pro laptop.. However, when I attach a usb drive to the imac it pops on my desktop in an instant. I think the best option will your computer will be using usb / fire 400. However, call an Apple to really make sense of this.The combination 400/800 drives are too advanced... for your computer. Hope I helped out. SidLocks MultiHop « Show Less
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Well you probably should not have chosen this drive. It's not trivial to connect it to a Mac. This drive is primarily designed as an internal PC drive. Depending on the ports available on your Macbook, the best way to connect this drive is to get a drive enclosure that holds a SATA drive and has an external connector for firewire or USB. I think a newer Macbook has only thunderbolt and USB.
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you can get any external drive ..... for it to work properly on a mac the first thing you will have to do is format it to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" then every thing will go smooth if you are using a mac only.
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I think you meant windows and mac. Yes you can and no need to partition anything. different folders for every computer
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My recommendation would be to get the Windows version and leave it as a single NTFS partition. Just load the included utility on your Mac so that it will read/write to an NTFS disc and use the single large partition for both platforms. Makes it easy to share files cross-platform that way.
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You plug it into the USB drive on your MAC.. and then navigate to it thru the Finder.. You can create a file structure and folders on the drive, and then move pictures and movies to the folders you have created... Or, if you are doing a full back up of your MAC drive, you would name the MAC as your source, and the G-Drive as your target- and use whatever software you have to do either a full or incremental backup.. Hope that helps.
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The drive work fine in a Mac. I had to buy an adapter, because the one that ships with it won't fit the Mac case. I bought it from Other World Computing.
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I don't know MAC/Snow leopard, but it is treated as any other USB storage device.If your mac can handle USB flash drives, or USB external disk drives it should work just fine.This device is Screamingly fast as well as large. transferring data from it via USB 3.0 to an internal SATA solid state drive, it reaches speeds approaching 300MB/sec.This device is also quite expensive (~$300).If your machine can not handle the speed you could buy more storage cheaper.
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I have a MacBook Pro OS 10.8.4 and it works great with it. I use it as a backup disk with Time Machine.
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No one has responded. My tech expert son believes that we will be able to do it. We will try this afternoon. I will hopefully be able to update you on our progress. Only other issue is that I do not have sufficient memory on my MacBook Pro right now...so we will try to transfer "through" the Mac to an external hard drive.
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I am not 100% sure but a disk drive is a disk drive. You will also need to get a Mac app called Trim Enabler because none Apple drives with not have this enable by default. You will need Carbon Copy Cloner to move your data from one drive to another.