- #My passport for mac on windows mac os#
- #My passport for mac on windows portable#
- #My passport for mac on windows windows#
#My passport for mac on windows portable#
The WD My Passport For Mac Portable Hard Drive is therefore Time Machine ready so you can instantly make backups of your Mac with it as soon as you plug it in.
#My passport for mac on windows mac os#
This means that it’s already formatted in HSF+ format (known as Mac OS Extended Journaled) so you can just plug and play with it on your Mac In fact, that’s the only difference between the standard WD My Passport Portable vs the WD My Passport Portable For Mac version. One of the things we’ve always liked about the WD My Passport For Mac products is that they’ve been made specifically with Mac users in mind. WD My Passport For Mac Portable 5TB HDD Specifications Manufacturer
If your budget allows, our advice is to get the SSD version of the WD My Passport For Mac Portable as it’s faster, more reliable and quieter. The disadvantage is that they are more expensive than HDDs and the WD My Passport For Mac SSD only goes up to 2TB. The internal drive of all new Macs use SSD technology for good reason. SSD’s have no moving parts, are faster, silent and the future of external storage drives. However they are easily the best cheap external hard drives for Mac users and the WD My Passport For Mac Portable HDD goes up to 5TB for a little over $100 whereas the SSD version only goes up to 4TB for almost $500. HDD’s are mechanical drives with moving parts inside which are more prone to breaking if you accidentally drop the drive or move it while it’s in use. In this review, we’ve looked at the HDD version which offers the most storage space for your money. The WD My Passport For Mac Portable external hard drive is available in either HDD or SSD versions. WD My Passport For Mac Portable Features.
#My passport for mac on windows windows#
The Windows backup answer should be handled by someone else who has experience with BootCamp or VM because I do not use it. Follow the prompts in the dialog box and you will be set for your Mac backup. Time Machine will immediately launch and ask about your choice for backup. Once you re-attach the WD as a partitioned drive it will show up as two separate icons on the desktop representing two distinct and 'separate' volumes (even though they belong to the same physical entity). Now you can unmount the drive while you prepare the Windows side for backup with the Windows utility. Click Apply in the lower right of that window and wait while the process completes. The other partition you will select, name and choose FAT32 as it already appears. Once satisfied, click one partition and name and format accordingly in HFS+ for the Mac requirements note: the HFS+ formatted partition will be recognized by Time Machine and you will be asked if that is your wish to use it you will probably answer 'yes' and allow TM to do its thing. Grab the slider/divider to set the size limits to your requirements. From the expansion list select 2 Partitions.
(Be sure to select the topmost entry for the WD otherwise you will not have the Partition option.) It will show the Volume Scheme as Current with just the one partition that you did in FAT32. Go back to Disk Utility with the WD attached and follow a similar pathway as you initially did to format it, however this time you will choose Partition from the sub-menu. What is the capacity of the WD Passport? If it is sufficiently large (for example 1 or 2TB) you could partition it so that one section (partition) is formatted for Time Machine, and the other is left as FAT32 for the Windows portion.
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