I am a photographer looking for reliable backup, but I am not a hardware guy. Is this easy to connect to Mac Pro?
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Yes. I connect mine to the Firewire on my 15" MacBookPro. I've got a 2TB that's used to back up my entire laptop, plus I created a second partition for old photos. Plus I don't keep the G-Drive on all the time. I turn it on every two days, run a backup, then turn it off.
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Yes it's very easy, you just plug it into a USB port. We own 2, one for videos and photos and another for all our other things.
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Try and use - plug into - Firewire as it is faster than USB2.USB Speed = 400 Mb/s Firewire 800 = 800Mb/s
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It really can't be easier to do, it's plug and play on any mac. I'm a video editor and this is actually my favorite hdd brand. I have read several bad comments but beside the ones I own @ work we have about 15 of them including raids and smaller discs and it's been about 3 years and no failure so far ( we use them 7 days a week some we never unplug or disconnect)
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Yes, I have been using it since December 12 and the connection with my MacBook Air has no problem at all. In my case, I connect it via USB and uploaded all the files to iPhoto. Sometimes when I cannot find the USB cable, I just insert the SD card into the SD card slot in my MacBook Air and let iphoto does the job.
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My Mac Pro is using Snow Leopard, so I cannot say for certain it by personal experience. I did find out that it will work with OSX 10.9 and some users have had some difficulty with the scan function. This can now be remediated with a free down load of updated scanner drivers. Other users have experienced problems with the wireless function as far back as my OS version and the problems seem to be related to using the proper router addresses. I don't use the wireless since my computer isn't portable. Hopefully this will provide you with the information you are seeking. As a side note my wife and I both have the same kind of printer and love them. We also use the off brand ink tanks from Amazon which can be purchased for about $4.00 for a set of five tanks. These tanks seem to work as well as the Canon ink tanks other than much less damage to our bank account.
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Straight to a MacBook it was super easy. We had issues connecting to our wifi but it only took ~30 minutes to resolve.
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I am trying to use it with a Mac Pro. I can make it work but there are issues. The mac won't recognize it at startup. I have to unhook it and reconnect after startup. It works fine then, if I just put the mac to sleep its fine at wake up.
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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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The mini pro cannot bus power off the esata port, only USB will power it. It does come with a special USB power cable, so one end into a USB port on your mac and the other into the dc power input on the MiniPro and bingo you have power and then use it with the esata cable. Its not that neat and tidy but you wont have to carry the power supply around as long as you have one USB port available when you want to use the MiniPro and works fine when th eMBP is running on it's battery. I like it and the speeds are very good. I have a 750 evo in mine and it is the boot drive for the mac pro using the usb power cable. This way it turns itself on when I boot the computer and off when I shut down. I would have to manually turn it on and off. Be aware that it may not like being put to sleep but it's an ssd so sleeping is not necessary. I tried sleeping the mac pro and the samsung would wake ok after a few minutes, but if I left it sleeping say 20 minutes the samsung would not wake or mount and I would have to reboot. It varies depending on which version of OS and which esata card you have but it could just be the samsung has its own auto off. I asked the guys at MiniPro and they said the enclosure has no sleep firmware going on. Long winded answer :)
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Absolutely ! I have MacBook Pro, am freelance photographer, and was in an on- line masters course when I wrnt camping for a week . Didn't 'to miss a day of school because I kept my iPhone & MacBook Pro charged & used iPhone as hotspot. Even submitted photos . I had to purchase adapter . Off top of my head don 't remember part #, but is listed on voltaic 's site. You have to have it. Might have been another $80. With it!
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@ J.D. Sigona I have a zr30w for sale on ebay $590 if you are interested and yes it will work on a mac pro
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For a Mac, I simply connect it to my computer and turn on the camera. It automatically up loads.
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I've used both the 1&2 TB in my early 2008 MAC Pro; they work prefect. No issues to report.
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Yes, on my Mac Pro tower, I've successfully used bus powered CF & SD card readers and portable hard drives and thumb drives. Only USB 3.0 PCI card for Macs that I know of that does this with no issues.
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Are you asking if you can connect it to a Mac via USB and upload photos? Yes, you can. Are you asking if you can wirelessly connect and automatically upload photos? Yes, if you have Mac OS X v10.6.8 or later. Be advised that wireless setup is challenging. Also, you will be required to use Canon's Camera Window application to transfer images; it's impossibly slow, even on a current iMac. Here are the best instructions for wireless setup...what they don't say is that in order to do the first step, you must have an empty card...http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/8201649400.html
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I use this for mac. I will say that it can be frustrating as a Time Machine Drive - as it stalls if the machine is sleeping. But in general, it's a great solution for extra storage.LaCie started as a manufacturer that supported Mac, and as far as I know they are committed to Apple.
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You can use firewire or USB. In reality, I no longer use the FW connection with my MacBook Pro. I use one of it's USB ports.
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This is very helpful thanks. If the card reader works seamlessly with iPhoto, that's great. They even sell card readers on Amazon that go into the expansion card slot of the MacBook/MacBook Pro for dirt cheap so I'll probably just pick up one of those. More convenient than connecting the camera with all the wires, etc anyway. Thanks for the help!
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No one has responded. My tech expert son believes that we will be able to do it. We will try this afternoon. I will hopefully be able to update you on our progress. Only other issue is that I do not have sufficient memory on my MacBook Pro right now...so we will try to transfer "through" the Mac to an external hard drive.