will this boot a pre-2009 Mac Mini (a 2006 PPC G4 10.1) ? the latest chip set external firewire drives will not
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Amazon: In the future, I will NOT respond to your requests for answering questions from insane and impolite people who are too lazy to visit a manufacturer's webpage for technical info. Thanks for your understanding.
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Hi, please... i want to know if this Crucial MX 100 512gb hard drive is compatible to my MINI MAC 2011 and if my system OS Yosemite recognize both hard drivers automatically. Thanks for help me.
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I got a older mac g5 power pc works great it is backward compatable 3.3v 5v
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If your Mac Mini has the USB port you problem is solved. No drivers needed, it's plug n play. Good luck
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I have used it with 10.6 thru 10.8. Make sure you create one partition. Also select the correct partition scheme (intel or power Mac). That will help a lot.
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Laurarom; Whoever told you to use it Western Digital "My Book Studio" external hard drive for Time Machine gave you great advice. Your 2009 Mac will be a direct connect FireWire 800, but Apple discontinued that connection on later models, switching to Thunderbolt. When you upgrade to later Mac, you can buy an adapter for FireWire to Thunderbolt. Set up is easy, practically does it automatically. Buy it. You will love it. BTW, it is silent.
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look it up on google. I have a Imac 2006 and it worked. but look it up first.
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try it being that you're already running 10.9 on a 2007 mac pro...it should work...
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Hi, thanks for your email, yes if your Mac has Firewire port.Take care, Norman.
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It has a FireWire 400 out, I had to get a FireWire 400 to 800 adapter to be able to hook it up to my imac.
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pretty sure the answer is yes. the mimiting factor isn't necessarily the hardware, but snow leopard. Instructions for boot from a thumb drive are here:http://www.maketecheasier.com/create-mac-snow-leopard-usb-installer-disk/the HD should also work.
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Honestly, You have a out-dated machine...I had a G4 about 4-5 yrs ago... Nevertheless, I'm glad it still works for you though! From my experience, the technology from the g-drive is equipped with 400 firewire, but at times it does not boot-up the G-Drive my imac desktop - but does boot-up to my Macbook pro laptop.. However, when I attach a usb drive to the imac it pops on my desktop in an instant. I think the best option will your computer will be using usb / fire 400. However, call an Apple to really make sense of this.The combination 400/800 drives are too advanced... for your computer. Hope I helped out. SidLocks MultiHop Honestly, You have a out-dated machine...I had a G4 about 4-5 yrs ago... Nevertheless, I'm glad it still works for you though! From my experience, the technology from the g-drive is equipped with 400 firewire, but at times it does not boot-up the G-Drive my imac desktop - but does boot-up to my Macbook pro laptop.. However, when I attach a usb drive to the imac it pops on my desktop in an instant. I think the best option will your computer will be using usb / fire 400. However, call an Apple to really make sense of this.The combination 400/800 drives are too... » Read More Honestly, You have a out-dated machine...I had a G4 about 4-5 yrs ago... Nevertheless, I'm glad it still works for you though! From my experience, the technology from the g-drive is equipped with 400 firewire, but at times it does not boot-up the G-Drive my imac desktop - but does boot-up to my Macbook pro laptop.. However, when I attach a usb drive to the imac it pops on my desktop in an instant. I think the best option will your computer will be using usb / fire 400. However, call an Apple to really make sense of this.The combination 400/800 drives are too advanced... for your computer. Hope I helped out. SidLocks MultiHop « Show Less
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This drive is not compatible with 2010 mac mini. 2010 mac mini used sata drive, this drive is ide.
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My impression is that it works with PC mainboards with PCI slots. Don't know if Power Mac G4 has same board architecture.
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Hi. As far as I know, drivers for this chipset was introduced with OS X 10.8.3. Therefore, it will NOT work with 10.7.
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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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I am experiencing spin downs and unreliability. I think it is more a mac os x issue rather than the hardware enclosure, and I know that apple is not supporting firewire 800 anymore as they are focusing on thunderbolt, and as I am running version 10.7.5 of Os X, I have multiple spindown and -50 errors on my external 800 hard drives, I am sorry to add more confusion to the mix, mine might be a different story when I update my os x.