Could these permanently erase a standard mac pro hard drive?
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If you used all of the together and pulled the drive out of the laptop, maybe. The only true way is to destroy the platters themselves.
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If it's a same size bay as a pc harddrive bay in the Mac Pro, (I am not a Mac person), then it should work.
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Not sure what your question is, but my drive failed repeatedly when I tried to copy the files from an old drive. I sent it back, got my refund, and bought a Seagate. I was using it with an old Mac OSX.
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You just need to reformat your drive to HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) or some other format that allows for read/write access to your drive on MacOS. You can usually do this in Disk Utility on your Mac. If you are unfamiliar with reformatting Hard Drives try Googling for a How-to. It's not difficult. Just a warning in case you've already saved anything on you drive from a PC--reformatting will completely wipe any saved/existing data on that drive.
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Probably not. This drive is unusually thick. You'd have to have a very special laptop to fit it. I had to return mine because it wouldn't have fit in my Macbook Pro.
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I would say no since the latest drives I could find were for Power PC. It looks to be pretty dated drivers for the Mac.
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tara,I got curious about your questin and was able to e-mail the company thru amazon and this is what the tech had to say! I hope this helps!I have tested these on the MacBook Pro running Mac OSX 10.6 and it was fine - in the event you have problem with the drive with the Mac you are running - you can contact us for support or return item for refund I hope this helps you!!!
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I honestly do not know if you can. I believe its a yes, But...I I have never purchased a Apple Care for my Macs or protection for my PC's. If you are handy with maintaining your computers minimal knowledge you can fix things your self. I back up my stuff on external drives regularly you cant go wrong even if a major HD failure. I use "Super Duper" when I hit other snags I google the exact symptoms and always bail my self out every time.I only hit one minor snag in a couple of years and fixed it. The money I do save I use for other cool gadgets.
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That sounds like a fantastic question to ask the folks at Apple who don't make it easy on folks to do this stuff. I no longer have a Mac pro... so can't help sorry.
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It should. Format it as a Mac OS X (Journaled) file system using Disk Utility, and you should be good to go.I only use it as a Time Machine backup HDD, so there's no troubles there.
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Removable, just like a standard USB thumb drive. On macs you do need to eject before disconnecting.
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Yes, the drive is compatible with a Mac, you'd just have to reformat the drive for the Mac file system, not a big deal to do though.
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I have successfully used these drives with older MacBook Pro and Mac Pro desktop machines. Prepare three drives in the same way you prepare a hard drive with Disk Utilities.
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No but you can backup your files with it useing time machine. i have use it with no problem on my pro mac
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Frankly, I don't think it even can be said to "work" at all. Even if one accepts the terrible Windows software and the glllaaaciallll transfer speeds, mine up and spontaneously reset itself and *lost all saved data*. If you're already in the Mac ecosystem anyway, why look anywhere else than a Time Capsule? Designed from the get-go to work with the OS, integrates wonderfully and has fabulous (well, compared to Seagate) support (if you're near an Apple store).
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I use these on my Mac Pro. They are not a perfectly Apple compliant drives. If I want to boot off of the drive, I have to boot up holding the option key and then manually select the optical disk. The drive won't let me boot off of it holding the C key. Even so, they still work great on my Mac and I don't expect any firmware update to make the C key work for booting off this optical drive.I would imagine that Sony engineered these drives for Windows boxes and not for the Mac or the Xbox.
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Yes. If you have not replaced a drive on a mac before, you may want to take a look at this or other tutorials first to make sure you have the right tools on hand, and how to back up your old HD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfiGF_pjqvM