The My Passport drive will run just fine on the Thunderbolt port of your newer Mac at the USB 3.0 speed specifications. The My Passport drive won’t run as fast as a Thunderbolt drive – but then you pay a lot more for those drives.
Don’t panic, they are available on Amazon and my favorite ones are 1. You will need to get yourself an adaptor cable that will plug into your Thunderbolt port at one end and the Micro USB B port at the other. Should your Mac be of the latest variety then it will have USB 3.1 ports also referred to as USB C or Thunderbolt They are physically different as you can see but backwards compatible with the right USB cable. Macbook 3.0 USB Ports The other end of the WD cable has a Micro USB B port and plugs into the My Passport drive. One end of the cable is USB 3.0 (and USB 2.0) compatible and that is the end you connect to your Mac.Īnd assuming your Mac has a USB 3.0 or 2.0 port you can plug straight in. Understand what connections you have on your Mac The WD My Passport hard drive is powered from your Macs. Take a look at Still thinking about which to choose? Take a look a Or take Connecting up the WD Passport Drive on Mac Turn on and log into your Mac then you’ll be ready to connect up the My Passport drive. I won’t go into the ins and outs of that here. If you haven’t purchased the WD My Passport drive yet and are thinking about your options, make sure you purchase a drive that is large enough for your needs. Inside you’ll find your WD My Passport external drive, USB cable and quick start guide.
#Reconfigure my passport for mac for mac#
So why pay the extra dollars for the one sold and branded for Mac when they both will work? Getting started Go ahead unbox. Regardless of which one you have you can use both on a Mac. The other is called WD My Passport for Mac and is designed to be plugged into a Mac and work straight away. One is WD My Passport and is designed to be plugged into and work straight away with a Windows PC. I plugged it in and the the external drive powers up and the light comes on but it fails to register on the computer so I c. Hi My Western Digital passport external drive no longer registers on my mac. It will list all the hard drives and devices on your Mac computer.
Disk utility is a Mac application, you can run it on your Mac.
#Reconfigure my passport for mac portable#
Method 1: format WD My Passport portable hard drive on Mac with disk utility. Now, I will show you the two methods to format WD My Passport portable hard drive on Mac.
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