In addition to the USB3 cable, it came with 6 (yes, six!) country adapters for the (international*) DC brick: Made in Thailand (or at least the case + assembly is, not positive about the HD itself, but probably that as well) ![]()
![]() This USB3 desktop product as sold by Amazon: SMR / Shingled Magnetic Recording (not the best scheme, but not terrible if you're mostly archiving media / playing back, but not deleting stuff all the time)Įxternal model, i.e. Seagate 8TB Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch 5400rpm #Amazon drive desktop for mac free#Amazon offers 30 day free return if defective. Mfgr warranty is only 1 year for US I believe. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE SELLER AND PRODUCT.Ĭould not pass up - one day sale was 40 bucks off the usual price.ĭeleted factory partitions and formatted as 1 ext4 partition (about 7-odd TB, as expected) for use with my media server. IT WONT PLAY ON TVS BUT I USE IT AS MY MACS HARD DRIVE. Take advantage of the newest, fastest connections-now and in the future: Choose from USB 2.0 (included), USB 3.0, FireWire 800 and Thunderbolt technology (sold separately). #Amazon drive desktop for mac for mac#UNFORTUNATELY, THE 5TB HD IS TOO LARGE TO FORMAT IN MS DOS(FAT). The Backup Plus desktop drive for Mac features a unique adapter system that lets you quickly and cost-effectively upgrade or change the drives interface. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE SELLER AND PRODUCT. I ACCIDENTALLY ORDERED A 1TB FIRST BUT MY OLD HD WAS 2TB, SO I SENT IT BACK AND ORDERED A 2TB FROM THE SAME SUPPIER. VERY VERY CHUFFED WITH THIS NEW BIT OF KIT. IVE OVER 1200 FILMS ON ONE OF MY 2TB DRIVES. #Amazon drive desktop for mac archive#SO I USE THIS 5TB HD AS MY MAIN ARCHIVE AND JUST PUT THINGS ON MEMORY STICKS OR 2TB HD TO PLAY ON TVS.įORMATTING A HD IN MS DOS(FAT) MEANS IT WILL PLAY ON MOST TVS. THIS 5TB DRIVE WILL NOT FORMAT IN MS-DOS(FAT) BUT THE 2TB VERSIONS DO! SO IVE GOTTA COUPLE OF 2TB ONES. THE NEW SEGATE DRIVE WAS 11X8X1CM, SMALLER THAN AN OLD IPHONE! IT WAS POWERED BY THE USB PORT LIKE A MEMORY STICK. HAVENT HARD DRIVES COME A LONG WAY? MY OLD HD WAS 2TB, IT WAS 17X11X3 CM ABOUT THE SIZE OF A BOOK AND MAINS POWERED. #Amazon drive desktop for mac windows#Keep alternative backups keep a spare windows laptop buy from trusted companies. Moral of the story - sometimes going to the Support desk works! Other morals. My disk is now happily backing up my Mac as a time machine back up again. It involved re-initialising/formatting the disk and erasing all the data, but given I had an alternative backup, I was fine with that. Reader, the competent, knowledgeable, very pleasant James solved my problem. Imagine my shock and awe when I got a phone call 24 hrs later offering to sort my problem. I then spotted an email address on the Seagate support page to be used to ‘escalate an issue’. Given that there was significant data on it, I did not consider returning the disk an option. However, given it was still under warranty, suggested I return it for a replacement. The agent was good, but concluded that the disk was broken. ![]() Was ready to give up, when I did a web chat with Seagate support. Including an attempt on a Windows laptop. In trying to fix it, I tried all usual disk utility stuff: the laptop could see the disk, but couldn’t or failed any attempt to ‘first aid’, restore, erase, mount, or re-format. Should you have a really defected product, good luck.īought this as a time machine back up for my MacBook Air in Mar 20 worked fine until this month, when it stopped doing backups. I get lucky it can be solve by a tick of an option and a restart. ![]() But bottom line, if you get this item and you got problem, you're on your own. The product is running now, I don't know for how long. (Remember this if you got similar problem. Long story short, I've finally be able to resolve the problem by accidentally tick that write and read option on the info section again, and restart it. I've asked for technician to help, no reply. I've contacted amazon, they only reply once, and when I asked for questions and help, they never get back to me. I tick the option from read only to read an write, still nothing change. I try many thing to fix this, the problem persist. So, the item arrived, I plug and try to reformat it for mac, but cannot. So when they offer a good deal on this product, and I needed a new desktop HD, I took my chance and get it. I've been using Seagate brand for quite sometime, and never have any problem.
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