can it be programmed to have dual storage on both mac and windows at the same time? have both computers and want to use for both
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I dont think you can use it for both cuz lot of people have commented on this before , I could be wrong but I only used it on windows variations.
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Yes. There's a jbod setting. You can load 4 disks and have your mac see Disks: W,X,Y,Z... :)
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The description for the 500GB model says "Preformatted hard drive is ready for immediate use with Windows and Mac." I don't have a Mac, but based on that, my guess is it should work on both.
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The canned answer is no. There is a NTFS Driver for MAC OS that allows you to read/write an NTFS partition. This allows you to share the same files and folders with a Windows-based machine. Now that I've said that, let's talk about why this might not be the best idea. NTFS is a proprietary file system format developed by Microsoft. There are several drivers out there that tout "full compatibility" with NTFS; Seagate and Paragon are just two. I wouldn't bet my family photos and important documents on that statement, unless Microsoft itself created the driver. It's just another example of unwanted risk. I love the fact that it's convenient to share the drive between both, but there are other ways to accomplish this that are less risky. Personally, I reformat the drives to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and share the volume to my other systems using the File Sharing capability of the Mac OS. I also run VMWare's Fusion on my Mac, and share a path from my Mac OS volumes to my Virtual Windows Machine in order to perform data transfers. Bottom line, you can leave the volume NTFS. Seagate includes the driver that allows the Mac OS to write to an NTFS volume (or you can download it if needed). I do not know of any specific problems with this configuration. However, it is not a configuration that I use; call it professional paranoia if you like. I hope that answers your question and helps with your decision.
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This drive has a lot of computability problems, I would not try it on mac, most likely it will not work.
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Hi to the best of my knowledge an experience on a Windows platform it shows as 2 separate drives. On the Mac os it shows as 1 drive.
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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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You can by using either Parallels, VMware or Bootcamp. With Parallels and VMware, Windows applications can run alongside your Mac applications. With Bootcamp, you will have an actual dual booting laptop. I use VMware and occasionally Bootcamp. They both work great
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I also ended up using FAT32; I haven't seen any downside if you want to just store files... except the maximum file size. I don't know of any cross-platform format that has no file size limit, so my advice is FAT32 with the hope somebody else here knows of a better one! :)P.S: I have this exact product, and after a a few different attempts I found FAT32 to work for using it to move stuff from my windows 7 desktop to snow leopard macbook pro
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Sorry I am a windows user, hope you find your answer on their product site or ask fellow mac users.
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Yes, in one of two ways. You can partition the whole drive as ExFAT, or have a Windows partition (FAT32) and a Mac partition (HFS+).
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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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If you have MacOS 10.4 or later on your laptops, yes you can. Windows 8 has the software to choose the files you wish to backup, not sure about apple.
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Yes, you should be just fine. Just dont format your usb, or else all of your data will be wiped. Your mac should be able to use the usb just as fine as windows would
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No, I don't think you can. These drives are usually either for a Mac or PC and not interchangeable. I don't know of any that you could use for the purpose you want. Have you looked into something like Carbonite? There are others like this out there. This is a remote program to store your files and then you can get them from anywhere. You could look into this. It takes quite a while to save your files initially but then works in the background after that. Congrats for switching to a Mac. There is a learning curve but I'm sure, in the end, you will be glad you did!
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Hey, it's me again. I just went to there site and everything I saw said Mac compatible in the description, even though the Clickfree brand drives say "Multi-PC", I think one has to take the "PC" as a broad definition for any "personal computer", not just a windows. I still don't know if one can back up a Mac and a Windows computer on the same drive. The developers are REALLY bright from what I read in an article so I wouldn't be suprised! Just wanted to do some more research for you, but I still encourage you to go to there site as it is early in the morning and I'm getting ready for work... Cheers! Hey, it's me again. I just went to there site and everything I saw said Mac compatible in the description, even though the Clickfree brand drives say "Multi-PC", I think one has to take the "PC" as a broad definition for any "personal computer", not just a windows. I still don't know if one can back up a Mac and a Windows computer on the same drive. The developers are REALLY bright from what I read in an article so I wouldn't be suprised! Just wanted to do some more research for you, but I still encourage you to go to there site as it is early in the morning... » Read More Hey, it's me again. I just went to there site and everything I saw said Mac compatible in the description, even though the Clickfree brand drives say "Multi-PC", I think one has to take the "PC" as a broad definition for any "personal computer", not just a windows. I still don't know if one can back up a Mac and a Windows computer on the same drive. The developers are REALLY bright from what I read in an article so I wouldn't be suprised! Just wanted to do some more research for you, but I still encourage you to go to there site as it is early in the morning and I'm getting ready for work... Cheers! « Show Less
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Yes you can. To properly use it in this manner, you need to create re-partition the drive into two partitions in a GUID partition table (GPT). It cannot be a basic master boot record (MBR) partition found on many Microsoft machines. Then format one as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and one as NTFS or if you're on an antiquated windows machine FAT 32 or FAT 16(which will not recognize drives larger than 2gb, but will work fine if you are partitioning one of the drives as less than 2gb). Once this is complete, you are done and ready to use on both Mac & Windows full time and simultaneously.