#SEAGATE SSD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO PORTABLE#
#SEAGATE SSD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO PRO#
#SEAGATE SSD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO SOFTWARE#
#SEAGATE SSD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO PLUS#

#SEAGATE SSD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO SOFTWARE#

If you are installing Seagate software for the first time, there is a security feature that was introduced in macOS 10.13 and has continued into the latest version of macOS which is covered in this article here. If the drive is not being detected by the computer, click here to see this article. This is a general compatibility article and not a troubleshooting article. Older drives that are not listed here may work, but have not been tested. I followed these directions and it worked perfectly.Seagate has evaluated current product lines to determine which ones will be supported in macOS 10.15. I successfully installed, and am now running, Windows 7 from my Thunderbolt external hard drive. Next up, installing and booting Windows 7 off the STAE128 Thunderbolt drive. The price alone beats any of the other Thunderbolt options out right now.

#SEAGATE SSD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO PORTABLE#

I get to use my SATA 2.5вЂќ hard drives that I have laying around, I get speeds that match internal speeds, itвЂ™s portable and self powered, and best of all it was only 99 ( + 99(+ 9 9 ( +50 for the Thunderbolt cable). Overall IвЂ™m definitely happy with the STAE128. My results using the same hard drive and the Seagate Thunderbolt Adapter STAE128 were very close to that.Д¬ompared to my 2TB Western Digital External HDD USB2.0.ДЄnd for fun, compared to the internal 256gb SSD thatвЂ™s inside my Macbook Retina. I donвЂ™t have any benchmarks from when that was installed internally, but I did find a few through google and this seems to be about the average. IвЂ™m using a Seagate Momentus 7200rpm 500gb hard drive which I pulled from my old Macbook Pro. I bought it, and a Thunderbolt plug by Apple.ДЄt first I thought I would need to use a SATA cable to connect my hard drive, but it actually plugged right into it.

A little confused, I tried to google it but found nothing.

When I got there I found the newer version, the Seagate Thunderbolt Adapter For Backup Plus, or STAE128. A little skeptical at first mostly because of the lack of people talking about it on the internet, I went to Best Buy to see if they had it in stock. A little more googling and I found out I could actually use the STAE 121 with a bare 2.5вЂќ SATA hard drive. The best I could find were 3 or 4 heavy options for Thunderbolt external hard drives at really steep prices, considering I could buy a 1TB USB 3.0 portal external for a hundred dollars.ДЄfter more research I came upon the Seagate Thunder Bolt Adapter, STAE 121, that would allow me to convert the Seagate enclosed external drives to Thunderbolt. I looked into USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt, to which the later provided minimal results. So my research started when I was looking into an external in which I could use to edit directly on and was portable. With only 256gb to spare IвЂ™m limited to maybe half of that. I used to keep about six months to a years worth of scanned negatives on my laptop at a time, and moved anything older to an external. Since I scan my photos to raw uncompressed TIFF files at a fairly high DPI, the files are quite large. I had to move all of my music to an external and reduced the amount of photos I could work on at a time.

#SEAGATE SSD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO PRO#

Since switching over to the Macbook Pro Retina with 256gb SSD, IвЂ™ve been a little worried about my hard drive space.Д¬oming from the regular Macbook Pro with a 750gb hard drive I wasnвЂ™t used to worrying about space. HereвЂ™s a little review on my experience with the Seagate STAE128 Thunderbolt Adapter and a bare 2.5вЂќ SATA external hard drive. You can also use the STAE121 but IвЂ™ve read that they discontinued that for the newer STAE128.

#SEAGATE SSD DRIVE FOR MACBOOK PRO PLUS#

Yes, you can use the Seagate STAE128 Thunderbolt Adapter for Backup Plus with any SATA external 2.5вЂќ Hard Drive.

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