I’ve been told that the unit won’t function as a plain external drive. All I want to do is attach (USB) the unit to my Home Server (WHS2011) and use the Home Server backup utility to backup the files. Is there software on the unit (like the GoFlex Home) that won’t let it be used like a simple extern…

Can the My Passport Ultra be used as a simple external drive

Joe_S February 23, 2015, 4:27am 5

You don’t need the Smartware installed. You can use the drive like any regular drive copy to, drag and drop etc.

Joe

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