Mac Os Ventura External Hard Drive

I wanted a basic back-up storage external hard drive for music, pictures and OS backup. After reading many reviews, I purchased this product. It is exactly what I wanted, basic storage with no invasive back-up programs getting in the way. Great purchase and would recommend it!!

As a Classic Mac Pro 4,1 user - now upgraded to 5,1 and with a Metal capable GPU - my original system hard-drive (2009) with earlier Mac OS was not mounting as there are incompatibility issues with trying to use the original GPU and the 'newer' Metal GPU when both are installed. All the files (not the original OS's) mounted on this device were recognised by the current OS (2019) as a USB 3 external hard drive. No problems.

A great little hard drive. It comes with two cables for the different USB ports, which is a plus. It comes formatted in Mac OS Extended, which, while making it Mac specific, makes it easy to partition. I partitioned mine to use 1/4 of the space as a Time Machine, with the rest for file storage.

Good drive, but if you are a Mac user, be sure to reformat the Drive to MAC OS Journaled. It used to be the case that ExFat was okay if you needed to share a drive between a Mac and a PC user. But with the newer OS updates, my ExFat drives no longer read the data in Final Cut Pro X. What a hassle! I have to buy another one of these just to use it as a transfer tool so I can re-format my ExFat drives. That takes a lot of time and money. Hope that helps someone out there NOT to make the mistake I made.

HEADLINE: This is the second DVD burner I have had stop working suddenly in 48 hours, SO I'm pretty sure the Apple Ventura 13.5.1 update is the problem (not the solution as Pioneer suggests). PRODUCT REVIEW: This Pioneer burner worked like a charm on my Mac Studio since I got it yesterday (thus 5 stars).Tested it with many varied batches of photos and videos. Absolutely fantastic. Best external drive I've ever used for burning. Then, one day later, after the MAC was off for the night, the MAC stopped recognizing it. I'm on Ventura 13.5.1 and Pioneer says this is the right version of OSX. I've tried different cables, and many sequences of start up. The Mac knows it is there but refuses to let it start burning. I'm going to try it on other MACs and flavors of discs. Again, the drive worked great. So Apple OSX seems to be the culprit. B&H is fantastic beyond words. This drive worked like a charm until something intervened. I'm going to keep testing this, but did want to get this info out.

Excellent External hard drive.

I use it as an external hard drive for photos.

WD 5TB My Passport for Mac USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (Midnight Blue) Purchased 06/10/2020: Backed up my data and storage allows for many additional activities and tasks.

I bought this to use with my WD 4TB My Passport for Mac external hard drive.  Perfect fit.

Large, fast and reliable. Using as an external hard drive for backup storage with a Mac Pro. I shoot and edit a lot of 4K video and need tons of storage. This drive is versatile, affordable and does the job.