NO SATA connectors under the hood as a secondary hookup, just this 3rd party trash. I was suprised to find that even when connecting directly to the drive itself, still connections were faulty. I disassembled my case to see if perhaps the depth of the connector was not allowing the cable to lock in place. You have to play around with them until you get connected and then, when touching it or not, you will randomly disconnect. The drive, although listed SATA actually uses a small proprietary USB connection (not your typical SATA/USB connectors) which absolutely WILL NOT stay connected.
My boss and I ordered these for ourselves to see if there was any performance increase for MAC deployments. ambridge Camera in the Cambridge Building - 7th Ave. Most of the WD passports we have purchased worked flawlessly. Drag and drop all selected files into the trash icon. Step 2: Select the files that you want to delete from the drive. Navigate to Finder and locate the hard drive icon. We deploy external drives for our faculty when we issue laptops so that they can perform regular system backups. Step 1: Connect the WD My Passport hard drive to your Mac PC and wait for it to be recognized. Overall Review: I work in IT for a graduate level college. Horrible software (let time machine do the job) The price for a 320 drive is high, and the performance is ghastly.
