One thing that did bite me, my external FW800 case does not work with it.  The 
case is several years old and only supports up to 2TB drives, apparently newer 
ones will work fine.

Mike

On Jul 25, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hi Charles, Mike, and LuKreme,
> 
> Thanks for the quick response.  And I'm glad you all agree! :)
> 
> I had never worried about this before, but for some reason the comments on 
> this drive got me wondering if it would have problems in a Mac Pro.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Gregg
> 
> On Jul 24, 2014, at 11:37 PM, Charles Dyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Your Mac should not have any problem.
> 
> On Jul 25, 2014, at 12:46 AM, mikecap <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I have two in my 2008 Mac Pro and they work fine, all 4TB, no problem.  
> 
> 
> On Jul 25, 2014, at 3:21 AM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> No.
> 
>>> On 24 Jul 2014, at 21:06 , Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I am thinking about buying a 4-TB internal Seagate hard drive, model 
>>> ST4000DM000.
>>> 
>>> Many of the comments I read online make it sound like Windows machines only 
>>> see 2-TB of this 4-TB drive.  I did not see anything about macs.  Do I need 
>>> to worry about this on my 2012 Mac Pro tower?
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have this drive running on their mac, and giving them all 4 TB? 
>>>  I'd just like some confirmation before buying one of these.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Gregg
> 
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