Does this work with Lion? The specs only list Leopard, Snow Leopard. The WD website has the same model but states only USB, no firewire. Help!
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Yes, this drive will work with Lion and Snow Leopard regardless of how it attaches to the computer (USB or Firewire). Chances are, you'll attach via USB and it will work fine. If you see the word "Studio" in name, it's formatted by default to work with the Mac right out of the box.
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I don't know about lion. I have snow leapard. It should just don't load the software, and it mounts just like any other external hard drive. As far as I know the software is only for their extra features which I don't use. Hope this helps.
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I don't have that answer. I read from other users that there were some restrictions. Here's a link to Apple with a reference: http://store.apple.com/us/product/H6433ZM/A/western-digital-3tb-my-book-for-macGood luck!
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You know what, I'm not even certain I know which version of the OS I use... I'll check and get back to you...
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The Firewire model I purchased from Amazon is an older model that is being closed out. The newest model from WD is USB 3.0 and the newest iMacs are USB 3.0. My iMac is Firewire 800 and USB 2.0. I am very pleased with the WD drive and I use the Firewire cable(supplied) and the Firewire 800 port on my Imac.
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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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It does have firewire 800 so that was good. I have not upgraded to Lion so I cannot answer if it works with Lion, but you could contact WD and they would tell you.
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Hey Mark, well the funny thing is that I sent this thing back. It just wouldn't format. No matter what I did, or cable I used it didn't work. It also had problems with using the firewire cable. I think I got it to recognize the HD ONCE, and then it said it would take almost 17 hours to format it. I honestly think something was wrong with the drive itself, but I didn't want another one to try. I figured I'd wait.
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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 MacBook and its Lion OS recognizes the Sabrent USB when it's plugged it to one of the USB ports. As far as what drivers function with it, sorry, I couldn't say. If I were to need to research this further, I would look on Apple Help. If you are using a PC, good luck.
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Working on my mac mini perfectly. USB3.0 and OSX Mavericks. I have not used the firewire port but I assume it will work well.
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I have the 256 model, same drive. I use it as a bootable backup drive. It works. It's a little sluggish compared to a firewire connection.
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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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I assume you are talking about firewire 400. It doesn't come with firewire. You could look at a possible adapter: usb to firewire, it;s a maybe that it exists.. This notebook really offers no under the hood expansion - like most. You would need to do surgery to get to the motherboard, only to discover there are no PCI or PCIe slots available. Don't even know if the current Apple laptops have firewire and Apple invented the connectivity.
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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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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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USB 3 is faster than FireWire. I use the drive for Pro Tools audio recording and it has never given me any problems.
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I have recently started using it with apple's thunderbolt adaptor. I haven't had any issues whatsoever, it works just as well as it does with firewire.
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I'm not really sure but the USB and firewire connection works just fine for me.
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No! Firewire technology is entirly diffeernect. If you do not have a thunderbolt port on your computer firewire will not work
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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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It should - I believe that MacBook has a FW 800 port. You will need a FW 800 to 400 cable - the enclosure has 2 such ports. It also has a USB B socket, but file transfer would be slower than FireWire.
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Yes. I connect mine to the Firewire on my 15" MacBookPro. I've got a 2TB that's used to back up my entire laptop, plus I created a second partition for old photos. Plus I don't keep the G-Drive on all the time. I turn it on every two days, run a backup, then turn it off.
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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.