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Downloading to a Seagate external Hub

transmaster

transmaster

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I have a 14TB Seagate Hub. It is plugged into my Mac Studio and works great. it has a pair of USB port on the front. I have several internal drives that out of a defunct PC. I have a powered docking adapter for them. These are in the NTFS format. Can I plug these drives into these front ports and copy the files into this Seagate Hub which uses the exFat format. If I can copy them will they be stored in NTFS, or converted to exFat so my Mac can read/write them?
 
It’s not the files which are in exFAT or NTFS format but the file systems on each drive. macOS can mount NTFS and exFAT drives, however, macOS can only read from NTFS, not write. Since you want to copy from NTFS to exFAT, you’ll be fine.
 
Bigwaff said:
It’s not the files which are in exFAT or NTFS format but the file systems on each drive. macOS can mount NTFS and exFAT drives, however, macOS can only read from NTFS, not write. Since you want to copy from NTFS to exFAT, you’ll be fine.
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Yes I know the files are not the issue. macOS no longer can mount NTFS drives that ended with macOS Ventura. You now have to load problematic app's to do that. I just want to plug my orphaned drives directly into the Seagate Hub.
 
Works for me. NTFS drive mounted in macOS 13.4. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Bigwaff said:
Works for me. NTFS drive mounted in macOS 13.4. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Just how did you do this, My nood in macOS is showing.😟 I went through this early on and there didn't seem to be a solution. I have about 7 TB worth of files to copy. I have the 14TB Seagate I want to put most of this stuff into. I tried it with a couple of SSD's and they would not mount. I have Seagate conversion software but have not tried it out.
 
Hopefully you tried to plug the SSDs directly into the Mac Studio.

The front USB ports on the Seagate Hub are just USB ports, and low powered ones at that. Just about the same as an unpowered Hub.

So if you were trying to plug the SSDs into the Seagate Hub, they did not mount because they require around 896mA, and the ports are supplying 500mA.
 
Sun Baked said:
Hopefully you tried to plug the SSDs directly into the Mac Studio.

The front USB ports on the Seagate Hub are just USB ports, and low powered ones at that. Just about the same as an unpowered Hub.

So if you were trying to plug the SSDs into the Seagate Hub, they did not mount because they require around 896mA, and the ports are supplying 500mA.
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That is exactly what I did. I had no idea the front ports were not fully powered. I don't expect the rear ports to have the power for a HDD but I have a powered dock for internal drives. At the time i had just setup the Mac Studio. Coming from decades of Microsoft Windows use it is an interesting transition. I gave up to early I decided to go with an NAS so everything was on hold till that happened. Thanks
 
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