The drive also works with USB 2.0 at around 30MBps, which is as fast as the USB 2.0 standard can offer. Notes: Measured in megabytes per second, longer bars mean better performance. The drive was recognized quickly and I could use it to save games and apps, as well as to store media for playback. I tried it with the Xbox One and it worked very well. Just make sure you first format it into the supported file system.
Apart from computers, the drive will also work with other popular hosts, such as game consoles or media players.
Seagate st30000u2 mac#
If you want to use the Seagate Expansion interchangeably in a mixed Windows and Mac environment, you can also format it using the exFAT file system. In fact, I generally find that buying a drive like this is a much cheaper way to get storage for your Mac than buying a Mac-designated drive, which are generally much more expensive.
You can also easily reformat it into HFS+ in order to work with a Mac, a process that takes just a few seconds. Out of the box, the Expansion is preformatted in the NTFS file system so it works right a way with a Windows computer.
Seagate st30000u2 portable#
Like all portable drives, the Expansion is bus-powered, requiring just one cable for both data and power. But that's all you need to get up and running. The Expansion ships in a spartan retail package that includes the drive itself and a foot-long standard Micro-USB 3.0 cable.