Is this Drive compatable with the MacOSX system? Can it be formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled)?
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I do not have Mac. But it works great for my purposes on my Windows based PC and laptop.
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Sorry Francis, all 3 of my computers are PCs, not Macs, so I am unable to answer your questions.
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It sure can and it is the first thing I do when I got my new drive. Remember that a OSX formatted drive can only be read by a Mac. (FAT32 can be read by both Mac and PC, so I always keep one or two drives formatted FAT32, the rest are formatted OSX journaled
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Yes. Drive comes formatted and can be recofnized by pc or mac. You could also reformat using Disk Utility if you choose
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I may not be understanding the question entirely, but once I formatted the drive to Mac, I could edit and save basic documents to the drive. But my pc treats it like a read only drive. Hope that helps.
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I have been using it with OS X Mount Lion since the OS came out with no issues. I have had no overheating issues, and although I don't use the WD software that is included I wouldn't object to it for any reason. Just format, load, and go...very easy.
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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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This drive is not formatted. It is a standard drive and has worked great on my MacBook Pro, but who knew about formatting? Genius Bar did that for me, no charge.
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This drive is compatible with Mac OSX 10.8, so I imagine there are no problems with somewhat earlier releases of OSX like what you have. I always do my own drive reformatting/partitioning since drives arrive from the factory in Apple Partition Map/APM partitioning (because it's compatible with the old PowerPC based Macs), but I prefer the GUID Partition table/GPT partitioning scheme because it's what's required to boot from an Intel-based Mac (all Macs for the last several years). All of these can be easily changed with the "Disk Utility" software that comes with every Mac. You can reformat, repartition, etc. In any case, even if you don't repartition or reformat it should work just fine with your Mac This drive is compatible with Mac OSX 10.8, so I imagine there are no problems with somewhat earlier releases of OSX like what you have. I always do my own drive reformatting/partitioning since drives arrive from the factory in Apple Partition Map/APM partitioning (because it's compatible with the old PowerPC based Macs), but I prefer the GUID Partition table/GPT partitioning scheme because it's what's required to boot from an Intel-based Mac (all Macs for the last several years). All of these can be easily changed with the "Disk Utility" software that comes with every Mac. You... » Read More This drive is compatible with Mac OSX 10.8, so I imagine there are no problems with somewhat earlier releases of OSX like what you have. I always do my own drive reformatting/partitioning since drives arrive from the factory in Apple Partition Map/APM partitioning (because it's compatible with the old PowerPC based Macs), but I prefer the GUID Partition table/GPT partitioning scheme because it's what's required to boot from an Intel-based Mac (all Macs for the last several years). All of these can be easily changed with the "Disk Utility" software that comes with every Mac. You can reformat, repartition, etc. In any case, even if you don't repartition or reformat it should work just fine with your Mac « Show Less
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This is compatible with Mac. It will read the drive from iMac. There is not included Mac Software however. But it works fine at the hardware level.
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Yes. Just need to format it in a format thats appropriate for Windows. Like exFAT. There are some formats that will be read/write for both Mac/Window. These will be most versatile
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Can't help with any specific advice as I am using my drive with a Mac, but I can't see why there would be a problem. If you received a drive pre-formatted for a Macintosh, then doubtless, you need to use a Windows program to reformat it. Good Luck!
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Yes, no problem using with Macbook. Just plug it into a USB port and it becomes another drive in Finder. Then you can move the files off the recorder to your C: drive.
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The StorEDGE was formatted and ready to go right out of the box. Apple shows the format as "ExFAT". It does show up as an "Available Drive" in the Time Machine preference box as well.
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I don't believe so. The box is compatible with fat 32 formatted and NTFS formatted drives, but not Mac formatted drives.
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Just got one and it works great, but no, it doesn't show up in Mac OS X as a drive. I'm using 10.4.6 and can't see it in the finder, disk utility, or in /Volumes/. Bummer.
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I am pretty sure it would, as long as the OS itself supports the raid type completely. I formatted the drives using Mac OS' Disk Utility, but they were originally formatted as RAID 0, and my computer seemed happy with that configuration even if it wasn't what I wanted and was probably done with a different version of OSX. You should probably check that the older mac does support mirrored RAID devices before buying, just to be sure.
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yes, it comes formatted as Fat32. It can be used as is or reformatted using the disk utility in OS X
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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.