Would my seagate 3.5" external hd fit in slot or usb only ? can i store music on it, then play thru itunes as if regular hd? differnce with dockstar ?
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HD slot only accepts 2.5" with the USM storage technology (http://www.seagate.com/files/promos/usm/en-us/docs/usm-faq-datasheet-dsmb623-1-1209us.pdf). I believe you can alternatively use the USB port for larger HDs or without USM slot. I use this as network drive mapped to my windows computer - instructions here: http://www.mydigitallife.info/use-seagate-dockstar-or-goflex-net-as-nas-on-lan-without-pogoplug-internet-service/ I can listen to music, watch movies, everything without any issues thru my wireless network. Hope this helps on your choice.
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My experience is all the 15" laptops I come across support a second bay in the disk drive location, but you have to find a special 3rd party insert for it. I'm tempted to put BACK in the default HD because I upgrade to a SSD, but even a 240g drive is pretty tiny.
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If you want to use this as an external drive for the PS3 then you will have to get an external drive case to hold this 3.5" SATA drive. Before that, I suggest you go to http://www.ps3mediaserver.org and ask your question from the experts and see what their thoughts are regarding the Seagate drive.
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I apologize for such delayed reply as I missed to see your email for so long! I have seagate free-agent Dockstar connected to my Seagate 3TB Backup Plus Desktop drive and network adapter. I am able to backup regularly from my desktop and I am able to see my backup drive from Windows explorer.
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I just connected a 500GB (WD500AADS, ASIN: B002P3KO4C search it on Amazon) drive using a sata to USB connector (ASIN: B000J01I1G search it on Amazon). I had to use the tuner to format (fat32), and it shows up as a 465GB drive. I hit the PVR button, and recorded a sample, no problem. I imagine the pre-packaged drives would work the same.
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You have to put a jump drive in there, in the back. * 2GB seems to be the best idea, minimum. * But you can't use just any jump drive, because the slot is deeper and more narrow than you typically find on electronics (thanks a lot, Sony). * And (as if that wasn't annoying enough) I just got one to fit, but the 350 still won't recognize it. * Look at the owners manual, and there is a page about external memory where they suggest a Sony product by a specific serial number. I think that's what I am gonna try. * At the end of the day, the BD-Live content looks to be a lot of nonsense, but I've gotten sorta Ahab/Moby Dick about this task, and will pursue it to pointless depths. Good luck.
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No the External Drive will be reformatted to SOny's proporietary disk layout. You can attached a USB drive, but it will erase everything on it and then reformatt to hold overflow music from HDD
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I recommend your SSD drive of choice be the internal drive (inside the laptop). The NexStar USB dock will support your 1TB drive as your secondary drive. You might even expand on this design in the future and pop in two 3TB drives in this dock. The read/write times are more than sufficient to accomplish a smooth flow of data, whether it be in the document creation arena to that of gaming. Remember to change the drive letter path to the external drive letter when installing software after the OS is loaded. Otherwise, your SSD drive will fill up rather quickly. Also, note that one does not run defrag sessions on a SSD, because the process will damage the drive. Just my tip of the day.
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We don't use any software and only use it as a dock. Had up to 6 TB drive work just fine on our Mac.
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MANUFACTURER ANSWER: Thanks for asking! Our U3 dock should support a 4TB SATA drive. If you have an older dock you might need a firmware update: http://plugable.com/2013/03/05/usb3-sata-u3-firmware-update
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I use a 16GB Kingston DTSE9 (Data Traveler SE9) USB and I have no problems.I've had my Soundfly unit for about a year & a half now, so my memory is a bit hazy, but I recall reading somewhere that you can use up to a 32GB USB as long as the number of songs did not exceed 10,000. I have attempted to use a 32 GB San Disk Cruzer Fit USB, but I could not get that to work. I do not know if that was because of the 32 GB capacity or if it was something specific to the San Disc Cruzer Fit.
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Generally, YUP. Specifically, If your external drive works plugged into the laptop usb 3 port, It will work plugged into the hub which is then plugged into your usb 3 port on your laptop. I have 7 - 3tb seagate externals plugged in via a plugable hub into a pci-usb3 2-port extension on an old dell laptop running win 7 home premium. The second slot on the pci has a Seagate 3 TB plugged in directly. I get no vairance in speeds or performance from either slot/device. The 4TB should work as well.
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I have a different model, but same line. It played from a 500GB usb drive fine. The thing is it has to be formatted to FAT32 or it won't read. I use a 128GB flash drive on two different Pioneer AVH models fine as well. According to the manual there are file and folder limits though (I think 15K file/1500folder, not positive though), so 256gb may be overkill to be honest (I do have 10K+ mp3 on my 128 with room for more). I only tried the 500GB out of curiosity.Also a note on the 160gb iPod working... that's because it runs off the iPod o/s, making the size and format irrelevant. It also runs much slower than using a usb drive as a result. I have a different model, but same line. It played from a 500GB usb drive fine. The thing is it has to be formatted to FAT32 or it won't read. I use a 128GB flash drive on two different Pioneer AVH models fine as well. According to the manual there are file and folder limits though (I think 15K file/1500folder, not positive though), so 256gb may be overkill to be honest (I do have 10K+ mp3 on my 128 with room for more). I only tried the 500GB out of curiosity.Also a note on the 160gb iPod working... that's because it runs off the iPod o/s, making the size and format irrelevant.... » Read More I have a different model, but same line. It played from a 500GB usb drive fine. The thing is it has to be formatted to FAT32 or it won't read. I use a 128GB flash drive on two different Pioneer AVH models fine as well. According to the manual there are file and folder limits though (I think 15K file/1500folder, not positive though), so 256gb may be overkill to be honest (I do have 10K+ mp3 on my 128 with room for more). I only tried the 500GB out of curiosity.Also a note on the 160gb iPod working... that's because it runs off the iPod o/s, making the size and format irrelevant. It also runs much slower than using a usb drive as a result. « Show Less
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will I loose all my data that is already on the 4GB, or is this an additional drive? I tried to use the Seagate 1TB external Computer drive, but it wouldn't work.
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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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Yes you can. I have this model and I use a 64gb thumb drive for all my music. Works like a charm. Also can plug in an iPhone/iPod via USB for same results.
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For me it just worked as is - plug it in using the provided USB cable, and the drive icon will show up on your desktop after several seconds. You can re-format it with Apple's file system (HFS+) if you only intend to use it with Apple computers, but the default should work fine too.