I purchased a smaller hard drive for my macbook pro and want to use this instead, its way cheaper than upgrading w apple, will this work on wifi?
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Please check toshiba website: http://www.toshiba.com/us/accessories/Portable/1TB/Slim-II/HDTD210XSMEA Time machine will work fine on this one via USB cable.
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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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Yes it does work. Apparently, all of my computers were Mac. But, I have to tell you that this item does not appear to be a high quality one, although it get the job done. Also, when you use the connector, if it feels too lose, it meants that you did not connect it properly. Just a tip! Happy hard drive upgrade!!
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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.
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The fix is a little kludgy... but it can be done. The trick is to look for a "400" to "800" dongle or hub. What you are trying to do is come out of the dongle or hub with a "FW 800" cable and into the Apple Thunderbolt adapter dongle (about $30). I have lots of FW 800 hard drives that I use to feed my new Apple PBRP... and it works just fine ;-{)
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That was once possible, but no more (for apple products). Kingston stopped supporting this product and when IOS and OSX were updated the widrive ceased to function on the updated operating systems. I also own a kindle fire and we were never able to stream videos on it. It was still a good product until Kingston abandoned it and left their customers hanging without recourse. I still use mine as a portable hard drive for documents and pictures and occasionally to extend wifi range by placing in between myself and the wifi source, but the media streaming capability that we purchased it for is no longer supported and according to Kingston will never again be supported. That was once possible, but no more (for apple products). Kingston stopped supporting this product and when IOS and OSX were updated the widrive ceased to function on the updated operating systems. I also own a kindle fire and we were never able to stream videos on it. It was still a good product until Kingston abandoned it and left their customers hanging without recourse. I still use mine as a portable hard drive for documents and pictures and occasionally to extend wifi range by placing in between myself and the wifi source, but the media streaming capability that we purchased it for is... » Read More That was once possible, but no more (for apple products). Kingston stopped supporting this product and when IOS and OSX were updated the widrive ceased to function on the updated operating systems. I also own a kindle fire and we were never able to stream videos on it. It was still a good product until Kingston abandoned it and left their customers hanging without recourse. I still use mine as a portable hard drive for documents and pictures and occasionally to extend wifi range by placing in between myself and the wifi source, but the media streaming capability that we purchased it for is no longer supported and according to Kingston will never again be supported. « Show Less
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Sorry, I can't answer for sure because I'm a Windows 7 user but I can't believe it would not because you can load your photos via wi-fi an Mac's are wi-fi friendly.
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I bought the drive to use as a drive to store books, movies and photos. I'm not sure if it is a backup clone of an intel Mac with Mavericks. I know it works very well for what I bought it for. However, I am getting the Airport by Apple to use with Time Machine. It should arrive at my house today. That boosts your wi-fi as well as backs up automatically.
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http://www.macally.com/EN/?page_id=70check the model you want to buy. The mobile wi-fi don't come with hard drive or SD card you can attache one to the unit and use the unit to transmit the data up to 5 users. Also you can use the unit as a USB charger.
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Hi, Although I have 2 older MacBooks I installed this drive on, it seems to be ok on the Mac Mini also. I would suggest you check out YouTube first and search "Mac Mini 2011 hard drive and ram upgrade." You really need to check out the specs on your specific machine too. There are space considerations, not just will it work. The guy on YouTube was using this drive as a secondary drive. Also, try Googling your situation. That's how I figure things out. Hope this helps. Steve R.
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To be honest I dont know about this drives wifi capabilities. I am pretty sure it doesn't support wifi syncing.
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I would assume so. Works well with macbooks, and all wifi protocols are standard
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Yes , just be sure your OS supports it. We have a Mac laptop and 2 iPads working well with it. Connect it to your wifi router for iPads.
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Hi Gabby, I don't see why it wouldn't work. With an older Mac, you could prob use a smaller external drive though, say 500gb.
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yes, it should i just bought one 2 days ago and it's awesome, i've got an old school mac g4 running 10.5 with two external drives connected via firewire (with all my vid's on them) and the WD box was able to connect to the computer without needing to do any kind of setup on the box. you just have to make sure your file sharing is turned on, on ur mac(durr). the only reason i say that it "SHOULD" is that my entire house is setup with gigabit, ie no wireless... so it should work so long as the WD box connects to the network that your computer is on. i'm just not sure how fast everything would be over wireless.
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I don't know because I use a later version of OS X. It worked fine with that. Maybe check the WD site? They most likely have full specs on their site.
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Yes, it will work but it will work at the lower data rate, not 800. I'm studying to be an apple technician.