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Is Seagate's FreeAgent Pro bootable?
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I'm considering getting a an external drive from Seagate but I'm concerned whether my Macbook Pro will be able to boot off it. Any info would be of great help.
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If you get the model with firewire, it should.
Though I'd recommend just buying a seagate drive and then an enclosure of your choice and putting them together. Then you can choose exactly the size you want and you'll get a nice 5 year warranty on the HD.
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Mactels are capable of booting off both USB and Firewire.
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Originally Posted by Aegis 
Then you can choose exactly the size you want and you'll get a nice 5 year warranty on the HD.
I think the hard drive companies are catching on to this because some of the new external hard drives also come with a five year warranty. My Seagate external has a five year warranty.
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Thing is, if you get your own enclosure, and you get one with an Oxford chipset, you'll know it's going to be bootable.
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A reason why I ask is because the bootable FW enclsorues from OWC, MacSales or Newertech are expensive vs just buying a prepacked FW drive from Seagate/WD/Maxtor/etc
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That's because those are higher-end enclosures. The NewerTech enclosures, in particular, have not only FireWire 800 and eSATA ports but also actual hubs for FireWire and USB 2.0 built-in.
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I just need SATA, FW400 & USB2.0 
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If you're going to use a Freeagent drive (I have a 750 gb), first connect it to a PC or Windows under Bootcamp and use the drive setup utility that is included ON the drive to set the hardware spin down time to "never"
Otherwise, you'll get some interesting error conditions happening as Finder and other system resources attempt to use a drive that has spun down, but won't spin up in time to avoid a time-out error. This Freeagent hardware spin down is INDEPENDENT of your energy preferences panel setting!
Made a mess for accessing my NFS server when that drive would spin down.
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