Can I use this with my MAC and see the individual drive letters. Can I use it like 4 individual disks not combined in any way?
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Dave, the bulk of my experience has been in the microsoft world. In that environment ie: win 7 etc, you can use the cineraid in JBOD, RAID 5, RAID 0, RAID 1 configuration. The JBOD is what you referring to for the MAC world. Again not a mac person but I believe it would be no different for macs especially using each drive having its own drive letter. The cineraid software will walk you through the configuration you are looking for.
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Not sure what you mean by drive letters (presumably drive names?) but yes, you can use it with a Mac as 4 individual drives in JBOD mode (Just A Bunch Of Drives). I use two of them that way. One issue is that if you 'eject' (unmount) any of the drives from the desktop, you won't be able to access them until you either turn the CineRAID unit off and turn back on, or use Disk Utility to re-mount them.
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I don't have MAC but should work the same way like PC. The only requirements to see all drives - you must have the port multiplier function provided by your computer's eSATA port controller. If not you'll see only one drive.
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Yes. There's a jbod setting. You can load 4 disks and have your mac see Disks: W,X,Y,Z... :)
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I do not have a MAC however on the PC and I believe it will apply to the MAC you can set up the array in various ways including 4 individual drives. I hope this helps. Ron
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I think you should be able to do this in Jbod mode...don't have a mac to test this though
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I cannot answer that question, I use my G Drive as a backup only for my MAC. Sorry.
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I don't know for certain but I don't believe it is designed to be used in a shared hub environment. You can check Seagate's site, but it might be too specific a task. I personally haven't heard of mixed Macs and PCs on a USB3 hub. You can back them up separately without having individual partitions but it would still be one at a time.
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Yes, the drive is compatible with a Mac, you'd just have to reformat the drive for the Mac file system, not a big deal to do though.
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Just got one and it works great, but no, it doesn't show up in Mac OS X as a drive. I'm using 10.4.6 and can't see it in the finder, disk utility, or in /Volumes/. Bummer.
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I believe you can format it for PC even though it was designed for mac. I have 350 of it designated as a mac partition and 50 of it designated as a PC partition, just in case I have to store something from a PC. You can check the LaCie website for more information.
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Hey, it's me again. I just went to there site and everything I saw said Mac compatible in the description, even though the Clickfree brand drives say "Multi-PC", I think one has to take the "PC" as a broad definition for any "personal computer", not just a windows. I still don't know if one can back up a Mac and a Windows computer on the same drive. The developers are REALLY bright from what I read in an article so I wouldn't be suprised! Just wanted to do some more research for you, but I still encourage you to go to there site as it is early in the morning and I'm getting ready for work... Cheers! Hey, it's me again. I just went to there site and everything I saw said Mac compatible in the description, even though the Clickfree brand drives say "Multi-PC", I think one has to take the "PC" as a broad definition for any "personal computer", not just a windows. I still don't know if one can back up a Mac and a Windows computer on the same drive. The developers are REALLY bright from what I read in an article so I wouldn't be suprised! Just wanted to do some more research for you, but I still encourage you to go to there site as it is early in the morning... » Read More Hey, it's me again. I just went to there site and everything I saw said Mac compatible in the description, even though the Clickfree brand drives say "Multi-PC", I think one has to take the "PC" as a broad definition for any "personal computer", not just a windows. I still don't know if one can back up a Mac and a Windows computer on the same drive. The developers are REALLY bright from what I read in an article so I wouldn't be suprised! Just wanted to do some more research for you, but I still encourage you to go to there site as it is early in the morning and I'm getting ready for work... Cheers! « Show Less
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Yes this can be used simultaneously. When you format it (on a Mac), just don't choose the Mac exclusive option. And yes you could even partition the drive to be bootable from Mac OS and a Windows OS if you wanted, or even a three way partition with one Linux.
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This drive is probably formatted for a PC only. I purchased one that would not work on a Mac and returned it. Look closely at the descriptio and see that it work on the Mac OS.
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in the paper that comes with the drive it directs you to seesupport.wdc.com --> knowledge base article #287The 2TB version I just bought was pre-formatted for NTFS (which Disk Utility recognized just fine...I reformatted for Mac just for the better file system)
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Yes. If you format the drive to NTFS, the PC will be able to write and read the drive, and the Mac will be able to read it (but not write to it). Your best bet, if you want to be able to read and write on both PC and Mac, format the drive in exFAT (NOT FAT32, since this is an outdated file type).
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I have excellent results with mine but I'm an MSDOS guy. About Mac, I know nothing. Have you talked to Mustek? Maybe there is a driver that will help. I had a problem with a RAID drive that seems to have been cured with a new driver.
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My use of this drive has been exclusively on the Mac. However, I did not use any of the back-up software or formatting provided on the drive. It was necessary to use the Mac disk utility to reformat the drive. Then it worked with Apple's Time Machine.
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If the question is whether the software on the drive is MAC compatible, the answer is NO. I have a Mac and I just use the device as a flash drive with my information in PDF files on the drive.
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If you were using windows I would say go to disk management and format, create partitions, and give it a drive letter but I have no idea what you need to do with a mac.
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you can get any external drive ..... for it to work properly on a mac the first thing you will have to do is format it to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" then every thing will go smooth if you are using a mac only.
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I have the same question but it looks like the drive does not support Mac based on the spec on this page: http://freeagent.seagate.com/en-us/hard-drive/desktop-hard-drive/Free-Agent.html