can this be used as an external hard drive for back up?
478855
Yes, but only if you want to back up to writable DVD or CD media. Few people do that any more, because backup to external hard disks is faster and more easily accessible.
478856
No, you would need an actual External Hard Drive, like a Western Digital 1 Terrabyte drive, for instance, to back up using your Mac's built in "Time Machine" software. This Superdrive is for reading and burning CD's and DVD's to and from your computer. You could burn documents, pictures, etc onto a DVD or CD, but that is much more laborious. Hope this helps.
478857
No, this is simply a CD/DVD ROM which is connected to the Mac computers by UBS. In other words they saved lot of space from inside the computer by building USB Superdrive outside. A new idea, but the PC Computers are also using it. Buy an external hard, I always do one TB for every computer! I hope this helps!
1054712
Agree with previous two answers. However, if you want to move data to an external drive, yes.
1054715
Yes and No...Yes; only if the external drive is a "bare drive" (not in an enclosure)...No; if the hard drive is enclosed in a case.
1058805
It solely depends what you mean by External HDD. Is it a SATA or PATA drive? Then Yes. If it is one of those USB drives with Type 'B' power port then you cannot use this. (I believe!)
577668
Yes, you could format it as a NTFS or FAT32. Mac (as well as Windows obviously) supports both.
1212979
Probably not. This is a replacement/upgrade for a laptop. It is not designed for external use.
1408810
It's not a hard drive - just an enclosure. You would have to provide your own drive.
1819016
It has standard SATA data and power connectors so yes it can if you have an external case or cables that can use those connectors. The connectors are exactly like that of an internal SATA hard drive.I would not use a SSD disk as a backup drive if you plan to write to it many times (1000s) over your planed use. If you have a USB3 interface on the machine you are doing the backups from an USB3 external drive is very fast for backups.
1735839
yes,all it is an external drive, so it would not run an operation system, but you can retrieve data off of it like a usb tumb drive and use it as extra storage for acomputer.
1487719
Yes, this drive can be converted to an external drive. You will need to purchase the proper external enclosure from a third party. Thanks, Mike
267955
Any hard drive can be used as a back up. If you are using this for backing up your computer or additional storage, you might want a higher capacity drive.
2000446
I think it has to be connetced to your phone in order to backup. I don't have info regarding use with external hard drive. Sorry.
1735840
yes, all it is an external drive, so it would not run an operation system, but you can retrieve data off of it like a usb tumb drive and use it as extra storage for acomputer.
473625
None. You have to put in your own hard-drive; this is just an enclosure for an internal drive to make it an external drive.
1019415
You can use it as any USB flash drive with capacity limited to what you have as card attached to it. I use it for movie library during travel time and my personal portfolio library...Consider it as your wireless hard drive on the go!
1006928
I am using MyPCBackup which works fine and I have also used a Toshiba external drive for backup. The backup up and down loads very easily.
569958
yes, you can,I used mine that way for a while but I would suggest that you wrap the drive in some like a static bag if using a metal case.