Is this compatible with Mac's Time Machine?
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I'm not completely sure, but I think so. I think I remember time machine asking me if I wanted to use the hard drive as a backup.
182459
YES, it can be selected to be a TIME MACHINE backup drive. ... (ADDITIONAL NOTE for Macbook users: What may be surprising to know is that you can also, if you know how to "partition" a drive when formatting it, choose to format this drive to be PART A -- 500GB for additional Data space for your laptop, and PART B -- 500GB which can be selected as your Time Machine volume. When you Partition a Drive, the computer then sees it as 2 separate drives on our desktop.) (hope that didn't confuse you)
477312
The first thing you have to do is to make sure that the drive is set to the format your MAC uses. It should work perfectly fine.
1156478
Well, I have a Mac and I just use the built-in time machine backup which does all of that automatically. So, I haven't used any of the backup software that comes with the hard drive, sorry!
1929582
Yes it is. I use it as a "Time Machine" backup for my iMac running Yosemite 10.10.2.
515166
I use this strictly to do OSX backups using TimeMachine. This drive is formatted for use with Apple computers and is not formatted to be accessed by PCs. I have no idea what you are trying to accomplish, whether it is backing up data using backup tools or just trying to copy files to an external drive that either system can read. Regardless, this is not a good, cost effective, starting point for you. You would need to totally reformat the drive and consider if your PC supports USB 3 because this drive is built to support that higher transfer rate.
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That's why I bought this drive, I have a MacBook Pro 2012, running mavericks. I had been using Time Machine with a networked drive, but it just just stopped working one day. I tried everything and I found that the format of the drive was windows based and this is what happens. So, I bought this Transcend 1Tb and Time Machine works well. It's large enough to use for Time Machine and have back-up folders of files, photo's etc, easily accessible. It's portable, designed to withstand a fall, it's USB3 and backwards compatible, and does not require a separate power source. I was considering buying another one just to have, but storage seems to get better and cheaper every day, and this more than meets my needs.
878343
Yes but it has to be formatted. It won't work with data from both windows and Mac
1755479
Apple Time Machine is an app although Apple sell its own hard drives for the Time Machine software. Yes you can definitely use it for that. I do.
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Yes. At least, it works with my mac. But you may have to format the hard drive using Disk Utility, before you use it.
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Yes it is.....when you get the drive reformat it to Mac os extended journal
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Frankly, I don't think it even can be said to "work" at all. Even if one accepts the terrible Windows software and the glllaaaciallll transfer speeds, mine up and spontaneously reset itself and *lost all saved data*. If you're already in the Mac ecosystem anyway, why look anywhere else than a Time Capsule? Designed from the get-go to work with the OS, integrates wonderfully and has fabulous (well, compared to Seagate) support (if you're near an Apple store).
2012487
Yeah it should work, but I'd skip it. PATA is outdated, I only bought one of these to clone a hard drive for my PowerBook from the early 2000s. That and finding a bare PATA drive that's big enough to fit all the contents of a modern Mac with Time Machine will be difficult. And if that's not enough, after 20 or so minutes of continuous writing, this will get pretty hot. I say buy a dedicated drive.
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Hi John, it will works perfectly and if you want to make a backup using your Time Machine you only need to chance in your Utility Disk the status to -> Mac OS Plus (registrer).
2154361
Yes this drive works perfectly with Mavericks, with Time Machine.... PERFECTLY!!
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There is a difference between Mac compatibility and Time Machine compatibility.Time Machine is much more stable with AFP, which this does not support. But Mac OS X can read/write to Samba shares (just not Time Machine), which this does.So, yes, this is compatible with Mac. No, it will not be very reliable with Time Machine.
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That was not your original question. You asked if it worked with Time Machine. It does. Any external disk will work with TM as far as I know, the bigger and faster the disk, the better. But Time Capsule, is a different animal, it is an external network device, router/switch that is both wired and wireless that contains a disk to back up to on the network as well as a USB port. In my opinion binding the two together is not a great win. It may be convenient for Apple users who want to stay simple and supported and use Apple for the sake of using Apple. You get more (or equal in some cases) bang for your buck by getting a non-Apple device for back up in most cases.
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Sincerely, I do not know. Because in my case I use this device only one or two time for month -when my Mac activate Time Machine option-, so I have not experience using everyday. For me works very good, is enough.