Can I backup my Dell and my Mac on same drive? I have a Dell and a Mac and was wondering if anyone knows if you can back up files from both systems onto one hard drive like the Iomega Prestige?
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Everyone is wrong to a degree. OS X can READ NTFS, it can't write to it, at least not natively. FAT32 is not really suitable for backups, so I wouldn't do that. Your two options are to either partition off the drive to have an NTFS partition and an HFS+ partition (Windows and Mac respectively), or you could make it NTFS and then download MacFUSE and NTFS-3G (google it) which will give the Mac the ability to write to windows drives (Abiet, very very slowly).
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Well, I did buy this and am not having any issue so far. I use it as a backup disk and carry files. It works fine for me even if I connect it to a USB Hub. I have used it with different Dell Laptops with NO issues.
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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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William...... My son and I recently purchased one of these drives for our MacMini. We have a small photography business (Armillaryinc.com) and are now using the drive as part of our normal processing and as an integral part of our backup strategy. We are very pleased with the device. Hope this helps! Best of luck.
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You did not say what operating system you have so I do not know how old, also if you replacing or adding this drive to your system, so I have to guess on these points. If it is a newer system from dell you have anywhere from a 500gb to a 1 tb drive installed from Dell, Most dell computer do have al least 1 extra dive location so you can add a drive. As for the Seagate brand it makes no difference what brand drive you install in your computer only that it be formatted for the OS you are going to use so it can be seen and read and write to. I hope this answers your question.
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I love this drive, but do not own or have used it with a Mac, but I think you made a good decision to use Time Machine, from what I read it looks like a nice system. I am using my Seagate with Linux and do my full backups using REDO backup, and my incremental with either a cp -u command manually or drag & drop from the GUI. Hope this helps.
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A.J., Thanks for your post, I have just done the same thing and it works a treat. My Mac picked up the Seagate drive on the desktop with no bother. Seems like the case and heat issues are letting Seagate down here.F
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SATA or IDE can be connected and copied on to a temp location and transferred to Mac, I have 2 of my SATA hard drives one from desktop and the other from laptop Cheers!
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Dell has told me via chat that they sell a dvd drive for this computer. I was told to contact their parts department. I have not done this yet because I already have an external drive from my old laptop. And I'm not sure if its a big deal.
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If you are talking about a PC, the seagate software will NOT backup the system or applications. On a Macintosh, Time Machine (which comes with a mac) WILL back everything up, including versions of files that change. Also, Carbon Copy Cloner will make a bootable copy of your disk. There are programs for the PC which will back everything up, but I'm not familiar with them.
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I really can't answer that because I have one computer and I generally keep it attached to the computer. I keep my system backups on this external drive. I suppose it is possible to move it around. Just keep the amount of information you want to back up in mind and the amount of space available on the drive.
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I understand that you can, in theory, but have read experts who advise against it. I use mine to back up Macs (which it does perfectly), but have a separate arrangement for PCs.
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I'm sorry--I can't help here because I bought the Dell for someone in our family. So I do not know the inner workings of the Dell I am a MAC person.
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Scrupples' answer sounds about right. Maybe look for a budget monitor. I wonder if you could back up your old computer and then load the files onto the Dell. I'm not the most computer savvy guy BTW.
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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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From what I've read on the clickfree.com website, they are Mac compatible, but I don't know if you need a separate external HD just for macs, and one just for PC's. Then again with Macs you've got Time Machine and Backup built-in, but if you're anything like me, if there is something like this product that I've been waiting to be released, if it will backup just one more file off my macs, I'll buy it in a heart beat! Check out their website, though, it is really informative and they have some products not available on Amazon, i.e. SSD credit card sized back up drives. Hope this helps. -John
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Yes you can - coming from being a Dell user I had tons of documents and external hard drives. I purchase Paragon www.paragon-software.com which allows you to use both types on both Windows and Mac. It cost me about $20.00! Well worth the cost if you don't want the hassle of having to re format your external drives and change your documents.