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My Passport Studio 500GB Hard Drive FireWire 400/800 & USB 2.0 Ultra Fast and Mac-ready. Equipped with FireWire 800/400 and USB 2.0 interfaces and formatted for Macintosh this high speed portable hard drive is perfect for Mac users on the go. Use it to pack up your office files and take them home carry thousands of songs or pictures and back up your Macintosh laptop using Apple Time Machine.
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By Ashley Sierra
I've only owned this a few weeks and have put little on it, but it works. I didn't plan on buying it for time machine backups, but when I tried the prompted time machine after pluging the thing in, my computer froze up. I haven't had time to figure it out yet though. But i'm not too worried.
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I chose this hard drive to go along with my Apple MacBook Pro. I chose one with Firewire for two reasons. First, because it has double the transfer speed of USB. Second, because it leaves both USB ports open for other things. Mine is connected all the time, taking advantage of the Time Machine feature of the Snow Leopard operating system.
By wolf5808 (Turnersville, NJ USA)
Noisy and overheated from the very beginning. Crashed and now useless less than 6 months after purchase.
By Patricia
This external hard drive worked well for 6 months. I started a backup yesterday with time machine but had to quit before the backup completed...now I have an incomplete backup on this hard drive that I CANNOT delete for some reason and no more space left to do a fresh backup. I called Western Digital for help and they said the only way to get rid of this incomplete backup is to reformat the drive, which means I will lose everything else that's in there. They tried to blame it on Time Machine and asked me to contact Apple, but this happened when I just copied and pasted folders into the Passport too.
Unfortunately I cannot drag all the files I want back to my computer before reformatting because I don't have enough space on my Macbook. So I am stuck with this external drive with only 11 GB of space left, and I can't do anything! I can't delete this useless, incomplete, inaccessible backup from this drive.
They pretty much said I could get a new external hard drive but only if I give them my credit card number up front so they can ship it to me and then they'll reimburse me the cost after they get my defective one. I will never buy Western Digital's crappy products again!
By I. Sims (Los Angeles)
I recently purchased a Western Digital My Passport Studio 320GB. There are several reasons why I bought this particular model.
1) In 2006, I purchased a refurbished WD Passport 120GB. It's been a great hard drive and it's never had any problems. Therefore, I trust the Western Digital brand.
2) I own a 2009 MacBook Pro, an older Dell workstation, and an IBM server. The Dell doesn't have USB 2.0 and the connection is really slow. However, the Dell does have Firewire 400. Although this is an older technology, it actually outperforms modern USB ports. The WD My Passport Studio comes with three connector cables: Firewire 800, Firewire 400, and USB. When I'm using the Dell workstation, I use the Firewire 400 cable.
3) I need a hard drive that can utilize the ultra-fast Firewire 800 on my MacBook Pro. This is the hard drive! Compared to available USB portable hard drives, there are very few available with Firewire capability. Also, the price on this hard drive is very reasonable, only $77 through Amazon. A comparable LaCie 320 GB costs $119 through Amazon.
Despite my praises for this hard drive, I have faced some serious challenges. Out of the box, the hard drive comes formatted to work on a Mac, not a PC. As both a Mac and PC user, I needed to reformat the hard drive to work on both computers. Although there are several software programs available to facilitate cross-platform compatibility, I didn't want to pay for these programs.
Rather, I wanted to format the hard drive in FAT32, a format compatible with both Mac and PC. (Disclaimer: If you need a portable hard drive for video editing, DO NOT use FAT32 formating. It limits file size to 4GB.)
I attempted to reformat my hard drive four times. First, I used my Mac to reformat into FAT32. The HD functioned perfectly with the Mac, but my PC (Win XP Pro SP3) would not recognize it. Second, I tried to reformat the HD using my PC. However, Windows XP does not allow hard drives over 32GB to be formatted using FAT32, only NTSF. I reformatted the HD using NTFS, but now my Mac could no longer write to the drive. Third, I tried to reformat the hard drive using the command prompt (C:> format /FS:FAT32 X:). This took about two hours and then I got an error message.
Finally, here's how I was able to successfully reformat my HD as FAT32: Using Win XP Pro, I downloaded and installed a program called GUI Format. I reformatted my HD as FAT32 using the Quick Format tool within GUI Format. The reformatting process took about two minutes.
Here's the link to download the free software:[...]
Despite my reformatting challenges, I highly recommend this hard drive. If you follow these instructions, then you should be able to reformat the hard drive quite quickly. Good luck.
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