Question 1

will this work with 2.0 ?

Accepted Answer

Yes it works with USB 2.0, you just won't get the same transfer speeds.

Question 2

Is this an HDD or an SSD?

Accepted Answer

From the price... its a HDD. And you can not open it up and use it as a normal 2.5" drive nor IDE or SATA.

Question 3

does it need external power or does it run off the USB connection?

does it have back up software?

Accepted Answer

no external power needed, have movies on it that a friend is using in hospital. don't know about backup software(never used on any of my external drives

Question 4

My computer does not have a 3.0 USB port.  It is 2.0.
Will it work properly on my machine?
Samsung three point 0 External Hard Dr..

Accepted Answer

Yes. All USB ports are backward compatible. It will just transfer at a lower speed.......

Question 5

Does the USB 3.0 connectivity work with USB 2.0 slots? since I do not have usb 3 inmy laptops.

Accepted Answer

YES. It is backwards compatible with older USB connector versions. You won't get the high read and write speeds that you would get with a USB3 port, but it should still be faster than a USB2 hard drive on a USB2 port.

Question 6

What colors does it come in?

Accepted Answer

It is a glossy dark metallic gray on the top side and flat black on the bottom.

Question 7

If I download a bunch of movies from my PC, can I open them up with my Mac laptop?

Accepted Answer

Certainly, if the movies are in a format that your Mac can understand. QuickTime will open just about any CODEC, but it is always possible to have a CODEC or format that your Mac does not understand. Even in those cases, you could probably find the CODEC online and install it in QT.

- Gh

Question 8

si it compatibile wish iMac. Materia and usb 2 ??

Accepted Answer

Yes. Just format it any way you like.

- GH

Question 9

Is this product appropriate for a non-techie like me? In other words, is it "plug & play" where I don't have to fuss much to get it going?

Also, does it do auto back-ups (updating changes as they happen)?

Thank you.

Accepted Answer

Yes, it's a snap to use.  If you can open the C: Drive on your computer, you can use it.  It's like having another C: drive.

You can probably configure your machine to back up to this drive, but it might be safer and faster to back up to your computer's C: drive and then, regularly, move files to this drive.

Question 10

Is this hard drive compatible with windows 8.1?

Accepted Answer

Yes, it is. I just installed 8.1 yesterday and it works just fine. I haven't used the bundled backup software though as I handle my own backups, but I'd wager it would work.

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