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Will the Seagate GoFlex Ultra Portable external hard drive work with the Time Machine function of a macbook and if so does it have to be the version for a mac or is the regular version just as good? Thanks for your help!
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Short answer: Yes, it will work.
There are two parts to any "external drive":
-- The case.
-- The HDD inside the case.
All HDDs are exactly the same for external use. All that is important is that they have the type of connector that matches the case. New HDDs use SATA connector. In your situation, you already have the HDD inside the case, so this is academic info.
The case also doesn't care what type of computer you have, except that often a "Mac" drive has a case with Firewire connection as well as USB. You will be hard-pressed to find a PC with Firewire connection, because it is more expensive than USB, and PC folks tend to shun expensive hardware. All Macs except the MB Air have Firewire for much faster copying to the external drive.
Some companies know that many people think everything about a Mac is special, so they sell a "special" Mac version of a drive. Nothing is different except that it is pre-formatted for Mac OS use. If you buy a "non-Mac" drive, it is pre-formatted for Windows XP or later (NTFS format). That is easily changed to Mac format using Disk Utility > Erase tab.
Time Machine needs a drive volume ("volume" means a partition that is formatted) with "Mac OS Extended" format. That's the only requirement.... other than enough room on it for the backup files.
Short answer: Yes, it will work.
There are two parts to any "external drive":
-- The case.
-- The HDD inside the case.
All HDDs are exactly the same for external use. All that is important is that they have the type of connector that matches the case. New HDDs use SATA connector. In your situation, you already have the HDD inside the case, so this is academic info.
The case also doesn't care what type of computer you have, except that often a "Mac" drive has a case with Firewire connection as well as USB. You will be hard-pressed to find a PC with Firewire connection, because it is more expensive than USB, and PC folks tend to shun expensive hardware. All Macs except the MB Air have Firewire for much faster copying to the external drive.
Some companies know that many people think everything about a Mac is special, so they sell a "special" Mac version of a drive. Nothing is different except that it is pre-formatted for Mac OS use. If you buy a "non-Mac" drive, it is pre-formatted for Windows XP or later (NTFS format). That is easily changed to Mac format using Disk Utility > Erase tab.
Time Machine needs a drive volume ("volume" means a partition that is formatted) with "Mac OS Extended" format. That's the only requirement.... other than enough room on it for the backup files.
Seagate Free Agent GoFlex 1.5 TB ultra portable hard drive?
bill y
This drive was advertised as being Mac and PC compatible, but the instructions on how to use it are very limited. I want to use it to encrypt and store files from either a Mac or a PC that I can later decrypt and open on either a Mac or a PC. I do not want to use if for automatic file back-up.
Please tell me in detail how I can do this.
Thanks
Answer
truecrypt could work
http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads
idk if its the best but it have support for both windows 7 and os x
i never encrypted a whole drive befor but this is how i used it
i start truecrypt and make a new crypted file (this work as a containter, think of a chest with a lock on it) which you set a password on.
then you use truecrypt to mount the file and type in the password, wrong password and it wont let you on it.
im unsure if you can crypt a whole drive with a simple setting or if you simply have to make a file big enough for the whole drive (well you can make several if you dont want it all crypted)
windows 7 have its own encryption but idk how it works with osx.
you can also read the beginners tutorial here http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/
truecrypt could work
http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads
idk if its the best but it have support for both windows 7 and os x
i never encrypted a whole drive befor but this is how i used it
i start truecrypt and make a new crypted file (this work as a containter, think of a chest with a lock on it) which you set a password on.
then you use truecrypt to mount the file and type in the password, wrong password and it wont let you on it.
im unsure if you can crypt a whole drive with a simple setting or if you simply have to make a file big enough for the whole drive (well you can make several if you dont want it all crypted)
windows 7 have its own encryption but idk how it works with osx.
you can also read the beginners tutorial here http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/
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