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Thunderbolt hard drive - For backups

  • 07-04-2014 3:42pm
    #1
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Any recommendations for thunderbolt external hard drives for backups?

    I have a 256gb SSD in a MBP and a 128gb SSD in a MBA that I'd like to back up quickly.

    Thunderbolt seems nice and fast.

    Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive looks like a good deal.


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  • #2
    fergusb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 331 ✭✭fergusb


    Are you dead set on Thunderbolt? There is a price premium for them, and if you have USB3.0, the speeds will be comparable unless you go for a SSD drive (I am led to believe anyway).


  • #3
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Don't have USB 3.0


  • #4
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,258 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    godtabh wrote: »
    Don't have USB 3.0

    A Firewire 800 enabled drive is exceptionally nippy and priced more favourably than one with a Thunderbolt port.


  • #5
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Yeah still looking at options. What sure what firewire port was on my 2011 MBP.

    As a side I have a 500gb external hard drive. Its formatted as NTFS. Can be seen in my mbp. Any ideas if I can use this on my mac?


  • #6
    Zcott
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    You'd be best formatting it for Mac.


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  • #7
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,258 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    godtabh wrote: »
    Yeah still looking at options. What sure what firewire port was on my 2011 MBP.

    As a side I have a 500gb external hard drive. Its formatted as NTFS. Can be seen in my mbp. Any ideas if I can use this on my mac?

    Firewire 800 I'd imagine; certainly the 2009 models had it.

    As regards NTFS hard drives, you can read from it but not write to it until it's formatted; you can do this with Disk Utility if you like or you can get softwares that will sort it out for you; Paragon or Tuxera to name two. You can convert the drive to FAT 32 on Disk Untility but it would need to be empty to do it as it will delete all the files on the drive.

    A hard drive with Firewire or Thunderbolt ports will quite likely be Mac friendly so stuff like this will become less of an issue :)


  • #8
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    my earlier post should have read my MBP cant see the ntfs formated external.

    It can be seen on a windows pc. Might just buy a firewire one instead


  • #9
    davo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,323 ✭✭✭davo2001


    godtabh wrote: »
    my earlier post should have read my MBP cant see the ntfs formated external.

    It can be seen on a windows pc. Might just buy a firewire one instead

    It will see it on the MAC but will be read only, format it to HFS if you want to use it soley on the MAC, if you want to use it on both the PC and MAC then use FAT32 (4GB transfer limit) or ExFAT (no limit but you need to check if your Windows OS supports it, Win7 and 8 are fine with this)


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