I currently have a Windows 8 PC and a Mac iphone and Ipad - if I want to save my photos from my Mac devices can I do it directly to the WD or do I have to save first to PC?
No you can do it directly. Think of all the people that don't have a PC. Plug directly to your MacBook. If I am misunderstood and you have Apple iPhone and iPad but no MacBook the yes you would have to save it to a PC first . You cannot plug this into and iPhone or iPad. Hope that helps
There are no connections to Iphone or Ipad from a USB device such as this so I would use Itunes to transfer them to either the MAC or the PC to use them.
There are some apps which would allow you to transfer to the hard drive over wifi if you had the hard drive connected to a router. The hard drive cannot however connect to your iPad/iPhone.
You will need to have the external drive and your iPhone and iPad plugged on via USB cable to your PC then you can transfer your pictures music or any other files you so desire to any location you like.
If it's like my drive, it gets its power from USB. So you don't need a power cord, but just a USB cord. And those are available cheap everywhere. But make sure it has the right USB connectors at the ends. The two connectors are different. One's a regular USB connector, and the other is mini or micro or something. Just make sure it fits, and it will be the right one.
It can be, but will require you to use either the MAC Disk Utility to reformat to HSF-J or there is a Western Digital software that can be read from the drive that can be used to format the drive to be used on Mac OSX.
I looked on the box for this drive and unfortunately I do not see any listing for macs. They probably have a drive set up to run macs...you'll have to stop by your best buy store and check.
It should work with any recent mac (OS X). I'm not sure about the older ones. You can expect to find it formatted for a PC, so use OS X Disk Utility to reformat it for Mac (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)). Also, you will achieve USB 3.0 transfer speeds only if your Mini has a USB 3.0 port. It will run fine with a USB 2.0 port, but only at USB 2.0 speeds.
You should be able to see the Samsung picture folder in Windows Explorer. Just drag and drop from the Samsung folder to the WD drive. I save pictures from my Note 4 phone to a WD Passport using this method. The same method can be used to extract photos from an iPad or iPod. Not sure about an iPhone because I don't have one.
You will have to go through a computer or an online storage like Dropbox. But if you connect both devices to your computer you can easily transfer files between them. I bought this to help back up the family accounts, and cameras.
Yes, you can store any data files you want in it. You just have to find a way to transfer from your phone to a computer that this device will be connect to.
I'm not sure if you can hook them up directly (the phone and the drive) but if you email the pics from your phone or hook your phone up to your computer you can just drop the files directly into a folder on the drive and you'd be set.
Yes, I am using this as my storage place for all my files, pictures and documents. Everyone on my computer stores all of their information here as well.
Yes. I transferred my phone files- jpg and mp4 to a Windows computer and then from that device to the WD hard drive. Of course files uploaded to cloud storage can be transferred to a hard drive as well. I hope this reply helped answer your question. Thank you.
The amount of songs it can hold depends on a lot of variables such as type of encoding and bit rate so this is an extremely rough estimate. The drive has about 1.81TB of available space. An average 4 min MP3 songs is around 4MB in size. That would give you about 452,500 songs on this drive with nothing else on it...again a very rough estimate.
I have an older style of the My Passport (bought a few years ago). Mine works fine with Ubuntu, so long as you don't activate the smartware lock that WD puts on the drives.
I have not tried that, but if the movie is in a format that the tv supports, you shouldn't have a problem. I suggest you check out what your tv supports and make sure that the desired movie is converted to that format.
If your smart TV has an app (program) to play movies from your hard drive, your can. Check with the manufacturer's website (Sony, LG, Samsung,...). Everything is dependent upon the TV model.
I have not personally tried it with a chrome book as i don't have one. But if your chrome book has a usb 3.0/ 2.0 slot, this should be surely compatible.