I now need a larger b/u HD. My iMac has USB 2.0 and Firewire. Is this drive compatible with Firewire 800 ?
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No, it is not.I suggest a G-Tech to use with iMac FW800, thats how i added my 2nd external hdd.
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Hi, thanks for your email, yes if your Mac has Firewire port. Take care, Norman.
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Yes, at least mine were using Firewire. This one also has Firewire and a USB 3.0 port, while earlier models do not. That worked out great for connecting USB 3.0 to a new 5k iMac, which is faster than FW anyway; but my older ones cannot as the 5k iMac has no Firewire port.
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If you have FireWire 800 you can daisy chain several drives together. I have a 12 core mac that can do that, not sure on a PC . The drives can be formatted for PC. The best thing would be to ask customer support at G-Tech, they have been very good at answering my questions in the past.
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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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Did I read right? On this LaCie the USB 2.0 transfers at 480 mbs and the 400 firewire at 400mbs? This is in the spec section describing the product. I have a new MacBook Pro and had to use the USB cable since the 400 firewire LaCie cable would not fit the Mac's 800 port. I found that it transferred very fast. However I bought this for the firewire capability and expect to use it. When will LaCie make the 800 firewire, I wonder?
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I don't know what firewire I need to transfer files---2006 imac mac OS X--10.6.8 and newer 2013 imac 10.10.1------so are both 800 compatiable or is the older a 400 firewire and the newer 800 firewire. Or is there a cable that will take care of both of them?
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Thunderbolt is the newer Apple/Mac standard, and is supposed to be faster. Fewer Thunderbolt-ready devices available though. I have the firewire version of the HD, and it is a huge speed increase over USB.
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The WD My Book Studio 2 TB Firewire 800, has a firewire port and a usb port, if your mack does not have a firewire port it will connect through the usb port although at a slower speed than if it did at the firewire connection.
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The WD drive I bought was Firewire 400/800 -- faster than USB2 which is all my 2008 iMac handles, but slower than USB3. You will be more up to date for your next Mac if you buy the USB 3 drive, it just won't run at top speed on your current Mac. Time Machine will run fine, just take longer than Firewire. Expect your first back up to take quite a long time.
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Sure ! It's FireWire 800, so for 400 you'd need an adapter cable, on either aperture or iTunes, you hold option when you open & create NEW Libraries, you can't have 2 libraries open at once, which I'm sure you know. I use mine as a passthru for some older FireWire 400 gear & as a second library for just the same as you're looking, only caveat ? It doesn't like to unmount.
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The only problems that people have had with the apple adapter is with bus powered firewire 400 & 800 devices, due to the fact that thunderbolt supplies something like 7 watts while firewire can be in the 20-45 watt range depending on the hosting device. But since this drive is powered off of a external source you will not have that issue. you should have no problem running this drive from a thunderbolt adapter.
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There is another enclosure by Acomdata specifically for PATA drives. It only supports USB2.0 connections, not Firewire.
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What firewire port do you have on your Mac Mini? If it is the new format then yes, if not then no.
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I am sure that you can use it if you have the Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter. It works on the ThunderBolt port of your new iMac. I think the Apple brand is best, but there may be less expensive options. So the set-up would be ThunderBolt FireWire 800 adapter blogged into your iMac, this would be plugged into that and then you would have FireWire 400 adapter plugged in. Good luck.
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Absolutely. I actually have two of these externals and they're both hooked up by USB 2.0 to my 27" iMac which is 5 years old and doesn't have 3.0 ports. I read that 2.0 is slower but they transfer data rapidly so I don't feel like they're too slow. They're great little drives. They take up hardly any space and they are extremely quiet. I don't even hear them. I've had no trouble with them. My last hard drive was also a Porsche and I used it for 8 years without a hiccup. You won't see me buying anything but this brand because they have been so reliable.
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Just called Apple; Firewire 800 is Not backwards compatilbe with Firewire 400. It won't work :(