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USB External HDD
Hi everyone. I hope this fits within this topic. Anyway, I recently upgraded to a Ultra 4+ and using Lion. I also have a Seagate USB external HDD that I am trying to transfer over to the Utra. I c...
If the laptop has an ethernet port, you can of course speed up the transfer time.
Is your laptop a Windows PC? If so, I believe you can connect the external drive directly to the NAS.
The issue here is whether or not the NAS will recognize the hard drive format. It will read FAT32 and NTFS, which is also what Windows will read. Macs can use some other formats.
Is your laptop a Windows PC? If so, I believe you can connect the external drive directly to the NAS.
The issue here is whether or not the NAS will recognize the hard drive format. It will read FAT32 and NTFS, which is also what Windows will read. Macs can use some other formats.
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