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USB3 advice
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 11:44 am
by Peter Stedman
Am thinking about getting an new Ext H/Drive and the one I have in mind is WD My Passport Ultra 2TB listed as USB 3. It doesn't says that it's backward compatible with USB 2... I am assuming it is but would would someone confirm that it is please. I have USB 3 sockets on one PC but not the other.
Thanks. Pete
Re: USB3 advice
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 7:11 pm
by col lamb
Pete
USB 3 HDs will be read and written to by both USB 1 and 2 ports.
We have two WD portable USB drives (Passport and AV versions) and both work great with all our PCs and iMac.
A word of warning for others reading this post, external drives formatted in NTFS will be read by a Mac but not written to.
Re: USB3 advice
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 8:26 pm
by Peter Stedman
Thanks Col for reassuring me. Now to spend money!
Pete.