Am I reading the information correctly? I can backup my iMac, mac air, and my iOS devices all to this external hard drive?
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Yes you can using the Seagate Dashboard application and the Seagate Mobile App. The Mac install file (Seagate Dashboard Installer.dmg) is on the Seagate external hard drive. You can obtain the Mobile Dashboard app from the iTunes app store for iOS devices or from Google Play store for android devices. You can watch videos on this at http://www.seagate.com/services-software/apps/seagate-dashboard-software/
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Yes. Time Machine can automatically back up to this, and you can use the drive as a regular network share and store files on it that you no longer want on your mac. It works well with OSX, works horribly with Windows.
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First buy the thunderbolt connector. It is less expensive to buy it from Apple. I then purchased an external disk drive. Good luck
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I don't think your Ipad air has a USB port. Most Mac books do and will work with those two hard drives.
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if it is continuing backing up, is that the same information being made redundant or does it back up new information. MAC user with Time Machine
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Yes you can - coming from being a Dell user I had tons of documents and external hard drives. I purchase Paragon www.paragon-software.com which allows you to use both types on both Windows and Mac. It cost me about $20.00! Well worth the cost if you don't want the hassle of having to re format your external drives and change your documents.
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No, this is for mainstream PC's only. The website for Seagate has several external hard drives for Macs though.
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i have this on my iMac using time machine to back up everything. But, there is the Seagate Dashboard program that may be able to do what you need...here's a link to some tutorials that may help you.. http://www.seagate.com/support/external-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/backup-plus-desk-mac/
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Yes, mine was a Mac formatted drive and is now just an external I use for backup for my MacBook pro.
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Everyone is wrong to a degree. OS X can READ NTFS, it can't write to it, at least not natively. FAT32 is not really suitable for backups, so I wouldn't do that. Your two options are to either partition off the drive to have an NTFS partition and an HFS+ partition (Windows and Mac respectively), or you could make it NTFS and then download MacFUSE and NTFS-3G (google it) which will give the Mac the ability to write to windows drives (Abiet, very very slowly).
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Most likely you will not have a problem with it. External drives from reputable companies pretty much all are compatible. It's a great drive and I'm running it on a mac mini so you should be fine on a windows.
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I use this strictly to do OSX backups using TimeMachine. This drive is formatted for use with Apple computers and is not formatted to be accessed by PCs. I have no idea what you are trying to accomplish, whether it is backing up data using backup tools or just trying to copy files to an external drive that either system can read. Regardless, this is not a good, cost effective, starting point for you. You would need to totally reformat the drive and consider if your PC supports USB 3 because this drive is built to support that higher transfer rate.
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I have three of these...one as a backup for my PC and another that I use as a main drive and a backup drive for my Mac. But if you mean backing up files on your Mac and PC, I have done it before as a network drive but when it comes to moving the drive and plugging it in via USB, somehow the PC didn't read the Mac Files, while Mac was able to read the PC files...but by switching things back in forth, I actually corrupted a drive that way and it had to be formatted. But network drive, I have backed up files from both PC and Mac just fine. I feel it's best to have external backup drives specifically for that computer...one formatted via Mac for the Mac and the other for PC.
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Yes. I used the drive for photo backups while on a trip using a pc laptop and then transferred those photos to my iMac upon my return home. All worked well.
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i would think no you shouldn't have any issues this thing works as a means of turning an internal drive into an external as long as your mac is capable of seeing externals through usb you shouldn't have any problems.
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On my computers (Macbook Air and iMac) this loads as a drive and I can backup or do anything else I can do regularly with any other type of drive with this unit, up to its capacity of 128GB. Note, though, that my experience is under MacOSX and not Windows. My sense is that it should work the same way with Windows but i have not tested it. Good luck.
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I had the same problem when I 1st purchased this product. Apple then had an update and I haven't had a problem since. This is the only external hard drive I've used with my MacBook Air.