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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 333964" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>Manufacturer specs state PC and Mac, and the drive itself is firewire compatible. That's the IEEE [whatever that number is] side of it. I have found that with Macs, Firewire is better (and works as opposed to maybe not working) than USB. The HD will definitely be compatible (once Disk Utility is used to format it to HFS for the mac) and since the manufacturer states it is Mac compatible, it should work fine. Be sure to instruct her to use the Firewire cable for backing up her Mac. She can probably use the USB, but for high throughput stuff, Firewire works flawlessly with a Mac.</p><p></p><p>Keep in mind that I have no actual experience with this specific external drive. I have a Firewire non-branded enclosure with a Seagate disk drive which I use with my Mac and it works perfectly. I would assume that any other firewire external drive would also work as well.</p><p></p><p>And now, I'm going to go off and play a quick game on my Mac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 333964, member: 9385"] Manufacturer specs state PC and Mac, and the drive itself is firewire compatible. That's the IEEE [whatever that number is] side of it. I have found that with Macs, Firewire is better (and works as opposed to maybe not working) than USB. The HD will definitely be compatible (once Disk Utility is used to format it to HFS for the mac) and since the manufacturer states it is Mac compatible, it should work fine. Be sure to instruct her to use the Firewire cable for backing up her Mac. She can probably use the USB, but for high throughput stuff, Firewire works flawlessly with a Mac. Keep in mind that I have no actual experience with this specific external drive. I have a Firewire non-branded enclosure with a Seagate disk drive which I use with my Mac and it works perfectly. I would assume that any other firewire external drive would also work as well. And now, I'm going to go off and play a quick game on my Mac. [/QUOTE]
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