Are these drives fast enough that I can store a movie on it and watch the movie directly. I've just ordered a new Macbook Pro and it has USB 3.0. Thx
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Yes, it should be more than adequate. I can do so on my PC running windows 7, so I assume the Mac experience should be at least as good.
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Absolutely. Works to do so on a Mac, Samsung blu-ray, Sony PS3 and "old" (5-years old) pretty basic Toshiba laptop. You can fill the drive up with movies and do so. I have had issues before with watching movies on my PS3 from a 2.0 flash drive (the movie would lag at times when I would try pausing or fast-forwarding), whereas never any of those issues with this one, so while technically on paper it sounds from other comments like they may not supposed to have any issues, I disagree that 2.0s are just as good for that purpose. And frankly this is an excellent purchase for the transfer speeds alone. Absolutely. Works to do so on a Mac, Samsung blu-ray, Sony PS3 and "old" (5-years old) pretty basic Toshiba laptop. You can fill the drive up with movies and do so. I have had issues before with watching movies on my PS3 from a 2.0 flash drive (the movie would lag at times when I would try pausing or fast-forwarding), whereas never any of those issues with this one, so while technically on paper it sounds from other comments like they may not supposed to have any issues, I disagree that 2.0s are just as good for that purpose. And frankly this is an excellent purchase for the... » Read More Absolutely. Works to do so on a Mac, Samsung blu-ray, Sony PS3 and "old" (5-years old) pretty basic Toshiba laptop. You can fill the drive up with movies and do so. I have had issues before with watching movies on my PS3 from a 2.0 flash drive (the movie would lag at times when I would try pausing or fast-forwarding), whereas never any of those issues with this one, so while technically on paper it sounds from other comments like they may not supposed to have any issues, I disagree that 2.0s are just as good for that purpose. And frankly this is an excellent purchase for the transfer speeds alone. « Show Less
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I have actually returned this drive. It works ok on my computer without problem. I instead keep ADATA UE700 64GB and Lexar Triton 64GB.
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You don't need a USB 3.0 flash drive, you should be able to use a USB 2.0 flash drive and the speed should be fast enough to watch all movies directly off the flash drive. USB 2.0 is capable of 280 Mbit/sec (35 Mbyte/sec). Most HD movies don't exceed that bitrate, and standard definition video is significantly lower than that. Remember: USB 3.0 media will only work with other USB 3.0 devices, but USB 2.0 media will work with both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices.
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Even USB 2.0 drives can will work for watching HD movies. The big difference will be the transfer speeds transferring large movies or HD movies to and from the USB drive. Transferring HD movies on a USB 2.0 drive is painfully slow.
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Even the average modern USB2 flash drive at 1/4th the cost is more than fast enough to watch a HD/1080p video directly. For a large sequential access like a video file even the slow ones can achieve over 14MB/s.
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Yes - really fast. Most movies are less than 8 gigs; therefore, you could store more than one. Small clips transfer at lightning speed.
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Yea they are fast enough. i have a 16gb version and i get an average 40 mbps write speed.
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Absolutely.I have movies & HD videos, stored on mine (i've since purchased another).They transfer fast via 3.0, and you can watch them directly from the drive.
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I have both the 256gb and the 1tb USB drives. So far I am quite impressed by the transfer speed and reliability of them. So much that I carry a great deal of information to include pictures and songs. So far neither one of them failed on me. You need to verify that the drive is a legitimate one by checking that on the USB port connector has the serial number engraved. I understand that there are some cheap ones on the market with a much lesser performance and capacity from what is described! I hope this may help!
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I can't imagine why this external hard drive would not work with a new macbook. What difference would the screen make? I presume that the new macbook comes with OS X 10.8. I have two of these drives on my iMac and they work fine. It's a good idea to read the directions (quite simple) when installing the drive. It is formatted for Mac. The only thing I can think of is that someone mistakenly configured the drive for a PC. Then it wouldn't work on a Mac.
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USB 3.0 can't even come close to touching the speeds you get from Thunderbolt. On paper they look close, but in the real world, on everyday machines, Thunderbolt is king. I did my own test and I transferred 2TB in 2 hours with Thunderbolt, the same 2TB data I transferred with USB 3.0 took close to 8 hours.
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THE Answer is: YES.! - But you have to get the right one. I have been testing this out for a while now, and buying one stick after another to get the promised 200-300/mbps to take movies back and forth. I found that most USB 2.0 sticks crank between 11-28/mbps even in a 3.0 port. Most cheap USB 3.0 Sticks transfer between 30/mbps and 40/mbps, like this piece of crapple depicted here. You really get what you pay for. the more you pay for quality, the better they perform. I bought a Sandisk 3.0 USB stick, and really got blazingly fast 200/mbps speeds off my port. Best is, if you google a report on fast USB sticks, and only "stick" with the brand names. It pays not to be frugal here.
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Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups...I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner.BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable!Fingers crossed on reliability,Yikesboy
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You should have no problem. My mac has USB 2.0 and this drive supports USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 natively. The only difference you will see is the data transfer speed, and honestly, even with USB 2.0 interface, the data transfer is pretty fast.
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I use mine as a movie and music drive and works great. Another drive was used for my TimeMachine backup and works great.
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You can simply put the movies on a usb thumb drive. There's two (2) full sized usb 3.0 slots on the side. Just be sure to use the smaller ones, as they barely stick out of the side, if you're worried about damage to the stick.
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as an external usb 3.0 hard drive, yes. I bought one for my new mac 2012 as 2nd hard drive. using usb 3.0 its nearly as fast as internal flash ssd that came with it. I just got a 2nd one that connected directly to motherboard of new home server, lightning fast !
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I have the MCE drive. It's much faster than the Apple drive & works better. A no-brainer.
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"Hi, I've installed this drive in my late 2010 MacBook Pro and it worked without problems.I don't know your drive, but according to this page: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HTS545025B9SA02-NDW-R it seems that it is a SATA drive.Since all SSD drives are SATA you should not have any problem at all by replacing it.Now, since your MacBook is 2009, the drive won't be able to deliver more than 1.5 Gbps or 3.0 Gbps ( it is capable of delivering 6.0 Gbps in a faster system such a Core I5 or Core I7) But don't worry, your laptop will be way faster than it is now. Should you have more questions, please contact me via e-mail: rrllamas@gmail.com" "Hi, I've installed this drive in my late 2010 MacBook Pro and it worked without problems.I don't know your drive, but according to this page: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HTS545025B9SA02-NDW-R it seems that it is a SATA drive.Since all SSD drives are SATA you should not have any problem at all by replacing it.Now, since your MacBook is 2009, the drive won't be able to deliver more than 1.5 Gbps or 3.0 Gbps ( it is capable of delivering 6.0 Gbps in a faster system such a Core I5 or Core I7) But don't worry, your laptop will be way... » Read More "Hi, I've installed this drive in my late 2010 MacBook Pro and it worked without problems.I don't know your drive, but according to this page: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HTS545025B9SA02-NDW-R it seems that it is a SATA drive.Since all SSD drives are SATA you should not have any problem at all by replacing it.Now, since your MacBook is 2009, the drive won't be able to deliver more than 1.5 Gbps or 3.0 Gbps ( it is capable of delivering 6.0 Gbps in a faster system such a Core I5 or Core I7) But don't worry, your laptop will be way faster than it is now. Should you have more questions, please contact me via e-mail: rrllamas@gmail.com" « Show Less
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I use my external USB drive to download and watch movies. Works great and I have a Macbook Pro.
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Hi! It is shown with proud on outer box "Super Fast USB 3.0. Exactly what I needed for my modern i5 laptop (it's name Toshiba too). Actually Toshiba quite trustful company make good devices. Maybe this defective one in a million? I will try to recover my priceless pictures and HD videos from my trips from Europe. And hundreds and hundreds of songs and my pictures. My co worker computer guy tried to help me, but could not do anything - it does NOT work...
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I have a MacBookPro 17" Model A1229 from late 2007 with both Firewire 800 and 400. I use Firewire 800 to my Passport 1TB purchased from Amazon several months ago. I have it set to do auto Time Machine Backups every day. Never any problems. The new USB 3.0 is 600MB/s, Firewire 800 is 75MB/s, USB 2.0 is 60MB/s, and Firewire400 is 50MB/s. Firewire 400 will work fine, and is still offered as an option on the new drives. Good luck, hope this helps. Bill Rhodes
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Its a samsung drive. Its pretty darn fast. I replaced a quadcore mac pro with this and havent looked back.
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If you're referring to the DVD super drive from Apple it uses USB not thunderbolt.http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD564ZM/A/apple-usb-superdrive