Welcome to /r/Mac! We are reddit's community of Mac users, enthusiasts, and experts. Please submit or enjoy content, comments, or questions related to the Mac platform, be it related to the hardware or software that makes it up. How can I fix my Mac not recognizing my WD external hard drive? Update Cancel. Tom Patrick, Digital Rescuer. Answered Mar 8, 2017 Author has 201 answers and 165.8k answer views. Hardware: WD My Passport Ultra 3TB with MBPro Late 2013. 3.8k Views View 1 Upvoter. Related Questions. Hello, The Passport Ultra comes ready to be use on Windows computer formatted on NTFS and Mac will see the drive as read only and that’s why you are able to see the unit but not able copy or delete files from it.
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Samba is a linux protocol/program that creates a network drive on a 'server', this server could be your router for example, there are plenty of modern routers that support a USB-drive to act as a Samba drive. The advantage of Samba is that, once connected to it, the PC/Mac will recognise it as a standard drive, regardless of the filesystem of that drive (which is usually a Linux FS, for example NFS).
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The disadvantage is that it is indeed a network drive, so without the right infrastructure it is considerably slower than a local drive and of course susceptible to 'random network problem events', this is why I mentioned it requires at least some knowledge of networking. Considering you want local access, you could format part of your WD to be Mac friendly and the other part to be Windows friendly, I believe someone else in the thread already mentioned that option?