Software setup? Does anyone have any experience with running 2 hard drives in a MBP and recommendations beyond my plan above?
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Nope, that's the best way to do it. You can either just store your documents and media on the other drive straight up for little to no setup and point each app there (iTunes and iPhoto, for example are easy to do: hold down Option when opening them). Or you can set up symlinks to folders on the other drive for better integration. Lastly, there is a hidden advanced option in System Preferences to point your entire user folder somewhere else. You could then copy your complete Home folder to the other drive; this is not recommended unless you understand what's going on and what the possible ramifications of not doing it correctly are.
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I have not used this drive personally. But, there is a program called Paragon Software, which has written drivers for OSX to mount NTFS drives, and also drivers for Windows to mount HSF+ drives, so for $19 you'd be golden! They even have a free version for personal use on Windows 8 (and I'm using it on W10 with no problems)
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It would have been helpful if you had described what you intend to do. Clone what, exactly, would be a good start. And do you have any extra hardware available, such as an unused HDD that could be used for temporary storage?
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I saw this issue with my 4TB drive, but not the 2 - drag out an old copy of OS X like Mountain Lion, or earlier. Boot from the CD and use Disc Utilities to initialize the drive, then reboot normally and you should be good. This was a bug for large drives - but in my experience it did not apply to 2TB
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Can you run RAID that way? Id like to install 2 2TB drives, for large capacity RAID.
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Yes, as a JBOD I have (1) 3TB and (3) 500 GB drives installed. I will add though, my MacMini has a had issues with seeing all.
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I'm only using the one drive it came with right now. It might have software raid. You can ask the seller via their support link at deepdiscountservers.com.
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Yes, two hard drives are accessible at the same time with this device; it works great!
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I am also unsure about the bay for a second hard drive, but mine came with 1Tb, which to me is plenty. You will be able to install windows 7 or any OS for that matter. Worst case would be that you may have to download a driver or two, but I highly doubt that.
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@Tony I believe you could. You'd have to create two partitions on the drive, one formatted in HFS+ (for Mac) and the other in NTFS (for Windows). I have never done any such thing but it might be worth a try. Of course, as these drives have come so far down in price, why not just buy two, one for Mac and the other for Windows?
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Thank you for the info, I'll take a look. By the way would you recommend a 1tb 5400rpm or a 750gb 7200rpm? Is the speed trade-off worth the space trade off? thank you
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Performance is more than adequate for me - main use is local backup of RAID drives (attached to 2 Apple iMacs) and iPad/iPhone in-house access to any of that data (Drobo is attached to Apple APE-AC). My primary objective was easy admin: adding & changing shares & permissions, mix & match various SATA drives types and sizes, data redundancy w/o true RAID, swap & add of HDs without any admin. my short list included Synology, but made the decision just on ease of admin. I am aware of some horror stories concerning data loss with Drobo, but I keep it on a UPS and it's just a backup for me.
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With this kit I was able to install a 2nd hardrive in the lower drive bay kit. it's worth the price, on the ifixit site it was 70.00. Both drives are up and running and you should be able to do the install with instructions from ifixit. Good luck if you need more assistance contact me here on amazon
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I love this drive, but do not own or have used it with a Mac, but I think you made a good decision to use Time Machine, from what I read it looks like a nice system. I am using my Seagate with Linux and do my full backups using REDO backup, and my incremental with either a cp -u command manually or drag & drop from the GUI. Hope this helps.
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Yes. It's easy to setup since the drive operates independently from either Windows or Mac.
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Yes you can do that (that is what I do) but I suggest you buy the DS213j, the newer version of this. It has more RAM, a newer CPU, and floating-point and it is cheaper! You can attach two external drives or a powered hub with, I believe up to seven devices total.
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Yes, I partition it and use about ½ for Macbook Pro back up on time machine and the other ½ for photo backup.