I've spent a couple of weeks researching the wiki, reviews and competing products, and so far this seems like what I will go with. My question is on security. I have Guardian Edge on an external so the drive requires my CAC (common access card) to...
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Eyanla, I truthfully am not sure and am not familiar with what you are talking about. What I do know is that when I purchased, MyAkitio support was spectacular!!! To the point of going out and buying an identical drive to mine! If they have gone down hill... I'll be disappointed. They worked with me to the Nth degree!
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No idea but Google around. I see lots of comments about SSD and RAID setups on the net. Good luck!
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I didn't find any security software on the drive and didn't have any problems copying any data to the drive. if you are having problems transferring data to the drive I suggest contacting Mushkin.
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I have both the 256gb and the 1tb USB drives. So far I am quite impressed by the transfer speed and reliability of them. So much that I carry a great deal of information to include pictures and songs. So far neither one of them failed on me. You need to verify that the drive is a legitimate one by checking that on the USB port connector has the serial number engraved. I understand that there are some cheap ones on the market with a much lesser performance and capacity from what is described! I hope this may help!
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I have set up a few of these drives for users. In some cases I installed the WD softwares, but in others I did not, depending on the user and his needs. For my personal drive I just plug it in to a USB port and use it as I would any other physical, virtual or cloud storage device. I never installed the software.
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Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups... I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner. BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable! Fingers crossed on reliability, Yikesboy
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I do not know the direct answer to your question.If RAID is of no importance to you, why not simply buy an external drive for supplemental storage or for backup?I use RAID for its data redundancy.If that is of no importance, why bother with a RAID enabled device?Cheaper and high quality alternatives exist.
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This is for anyone else who might have this question it says on the chart near the technical info that this is good for Video/Audio use.Edit:You're right, I was looking at the regular g-drive...although Im pretty sure the difference is really just the size and price.....
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yes, it shouldi just bought one 2 days ago and it's awesome, i've got an old school mac g4 running 10.5 with two external drives connected via firewire (with all my vid's on them) and the WD box was able to connect to the computer without needing to do any kind of setup on the box. you just have to make sure your file sharing is turned on, on ur mac(durr). the only reason i say that it "SHOULD" is that my entire house is setup with gigabit, ie no wireless... so it should work so long as the WD box connects to the network that your computer is on. i'm just not sure how fast everything would be over wireless. yes, it shouldi just bought one 2 days ago and it's awesome, i've got an old school mac g4 running 10.5 with two external drives connected via firewire (with all my vid's on them) and the WD box was able to connect to the computer without needing to do any kind of setup on the box. you just have to make sure your file sharing is turned on, on ur mac(durr). the only reason i say that it "SHOULD" is that my entire house is setup with gigabit, ie no wireless... so it should work so long as the WD box connects to the network that your computer is on. i'm just not sure how... » Read More yes, it shouldi just bought one 2 days ago and it's awesome, i've got an old school mac g4 running 10.5 with two external drives connected via firewire (with all my vid's on them) and the WD box was able to connect to the computer without needing to do any kind of setup on the box. you just have to make sure your file sharing is turned on, on ur mac(durr). the only reason i say that it "SHOULD" is that my entire house is setup with gigabit, ie no wireless... so it should work so long as the WD box connects to the network that your computer is on. i'm just not sure how fast everything would be over wireless. « Show Less
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Like most external USB drives, I'd not rely on it for long-term backups over one year. Augment it with a cloud product that is acceptable for the type of data being backed up (i.e. personal, confidential, commercial, etc.). In my experience, none of the disks used in these devices are high-grade, and in commercial applications, we'll go to a NAS with RAID.
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Personally I am not a power user & never purchase service plans. Typically I just use my purchases normally until their usefulness disappears. At that time, I pass it along to a family member or friend that can use it. This drive is so well made, unless I drop it off a building or run it over with farm equipment, it should more than cover my needs. Regards.
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Well my Eee Slate is coming today, much like all of you I am patiently waiting to start using this slate after posting in this forum since its infancy and watching nearly every user video, finding every picture of it, and reading about it as much as possible. I want to know what all of you are going to do to increase your storage capacity via either a large SD card and a larger SSD to boost the measly onboard storage. I think we have determined that there are not any 6GB or 8GB ram modules being made yet in that form factor.
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Agreed superrabbit, my Passport died after 8 months. Thank god I have backed up everything to my other Seagate drive that I use as a secondary backup to my mac. I am looking to get either Iomega or Seagate 500G drive soon for my primary backup unit.
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If you upgrade to Windows 8 Pro my understanding is that you can encrypt the SSD drive. Alternatively, buying Bitlocker alone might be enough. This would be a Microsoft question more than an Acer question.
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No, it's a separate policy, which, like I did, you can get through Amazon, but it comes from them [Square Trade]. I bought one on my external 3 1/2 disk drive (as I have old ones I want to use with my PC). If you have questions, you can contact them, as I did, either by email, or phone, they were pretty helpful on mine. Thanks for asking Jen, and have a nice day/evening, depending on when you sent this, and receive this reply.
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i am new to external hard drives. i need more space to stores video files on my imac. is there anything i need to know? will the laCie 500gb hard drive work for me. is it easy to install and use.. ty for any feedback
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I would not buy this card, could not make it work and support is terrible. All most any external Raid will be faster than the Software raid on the motherboard. Plus if the board dies, you just move the card to anything that is working and you have your data back. If you have to move software raid to another MB and it is a different version or drivers, it can be an issue. So find a good card and you will have the best of both worlds. I do have some software raids in my office only to archive data to, not for working data. Hope this helps, Cheers