A:AnswerYes. WD's back up software is pre-installed on the drive and it's already formatted NTFS, so pretty much all modern Windows machines will recognize it.
If you are a MacOS user, WD has instructions on how to format it to something MacOS will recognize.
A:AnswerMine always run in the yellow and red. Very normal. HD Sentinel has a temperature calibration feature you can use to adjust according to manufacturers safety temps.
A:AnswerYes, can be removed from case and installed internally as a standard SATA drive. For NAS software, look into TrueNAS if you want redundancy for storage and backup, or UnRAID if you're just looking for bulk storage.
A:AnswerHi, Please be informed that WD Easystore Drive is a plug and play drive which comes preformatted in NTFS file system which is supported by the windows computer. However, if you want to use this drive on a Mac computer you will have to reformat the drive in MAC OS (Extended Journaled) format. .Need Help? Please see our "'Contact Us" page for information.
A:AnswerProbably not, according to Amazon they only recommend 3 external hard drive models. I took this from the FAQ section of the FireTV Recast.
Which external hard drives are compatible with Fire TV Recast?
Amazon has tested and currently recommends three external hard drive models.
They are:
Seagate Fast SSD 250GB
Toshiba Canvio for Desktop 3TB
WD 2TB Elements Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0
Compatibility or performance with other hard drives isn’t guaranteed.
A:AnswerI typically remove the partion and do a straight linux partition. But you can mount these type of drives on a Linux system by specifying the disk format in the mount command. For instance
mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/d
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/d
The first for a fat formated filesystem
The second for a NTFS filesystem
A:AnswerThe Easystore has a USB 3.0 connector. If you are asking whether a Thunderbolt to USB 3.0 ADAPTER will enable its use with your MacBook, then, yes, it will.
