A:AnswerIt should if you hook it up to your WiFi Router instead of your PC/Mac but it may depend on your personal Router type configuration ability.
I read you can set up external drives as a separate "network" if plugged into a WiFi Router (instead of setting up as an additional "drive" on a PC) and use WiFi to save on to it from any device within your WiFi reach (including from your PC/Mac)
A:Answer5900 RPM, 16mb cache.
Don't be put off by the 'slow' speed though, with the density of data on these massive platters rotational speed isn't a huge deal anymore. It can easily read enough to saturate the entire bus.
The rotational speed used to matter significantly, but that was due to low data density on the platters.
Think of it this way, if you have 1 million paper 1 dollar bills all lined up in a long row, you have to run extremely fast to get from one end to the other. Now take 1 million 1 dollar coins, line them up, and you don't need to run anywhere near as fast to reach the end in the same amount of time. Both are 1 million dollars, but the coins are smaller, so require less travel distance for the same amount.
A:AnswerYou need AC power to use drive. It is small enough to be portable but, again you need an ac power source to use it. Sounds like you need a portable drive there are many available that will meet your needs.
A:AnswerYes it can be used by dragging and dropping if your Operating system supports that, which most do. It is an external drive that connects with a USB cable.
A:AnswerIf your computer can run Win XP SP3, then yes. If it does then the best thing to do is to buy a USB 3.0 card with it. The speed is so much faster with large amount of data.
A:AnswerI run both Apple and Windows machines in my home network. I have connected to the drive using Xp, W7 and W8 machines without any issues.
I have the Seagate connected to a USB 3.0 port on my Linksys NAS. I also use it primarily for pics and video storage.
A:AnswerNope. The PS4 doesn't support external hard drives. You can modify the PS4 in order to use this hard drive, but it is not a plug and play hard drive for the PS4 (as nothing is.) It DOES work for the PS3, and the Xbox One.
A:AnswerYes and for the money this is the one to get. Don't buy small. There is never enough capacity just like there is never enough money no matter how much you have.
A:AnswerYes. If you reformat it. Macs don't write to NTFS (Windows file system) natively. (Though it will read it all day) You either need another program to enable this feature, or change a couple of settings in terminal. Use the disk utility to reformat the drive to HSF, or HSF+,and you'll be good to go. Just be aware that there's a second partition, otherwise you'll only reformat half the drive. It's not necessary to buy a drive that says Mac on it. They tend to be a little more expensive, for the same drive, when all you have to do is take the 2-3 minutes to reformat it.
A:AnswerOf course you can I do it all the time on 2,3 or 4 computers. I just start a new folder for each computer with the date of back up and what you are backing up. It's great to be able to do several backups of each computer in the even you get hit by a virus, glitches, crashed HD, and in the event you must restore and one copy is compromised, your safe. Never, never, never think that one backup is enough, but rather 2, 3, or 4. Also store one copy somewhere else. You are only limited by the size of your backup HD. You can backup each computer multiple times. Just create a new folder with the computer, data, and date. When it gets full you can just delete the oldest ones and do it again. Remember, don't do it all on just 1 external HD, but rather 2 or 3 of them. You'll never be sorry. Good Luck on you adventures.
A:AnswerIf you're transferring files when it happens, definitely do the transfer again as that might corrupt the files. There is always potential that cutting the power to an external drive might corrupt data. The safest thing to do is to unmount the drive prior to removing the power supply. Not much you can do with the power going out unless you have it plugged into a battery backup system.
