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I have recently Brought a SAMSUNG SSD Drive and when I plug to the USB port on my pc or mac,but the SSD drive is unable to read ? or my new SSD drive is not there or it doesn't exist like its not there at all and do I have to format or reformat my drive first before it can be used? or is this automatically plug/play device?
 
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If the device is visible in the Device Manager (do you know how to open this?) and is shown as RAW you have to initialize it, partition it, and format it. If it's shown as simply unallocated, you have to partition and format it.

Could you please provide the model number and, ideally, a link to the product page? Even with USB 3.0, and external SSD seems a bit odd. I'd be interested to see how they position it on the market. The best USB 3.0 sustained speeds I've ever seen myself are 102 GB/s write and 123 GB/s read. That's GibiBytes per second ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte ), and pretty impressive for a USB "thumb drive."

@reedo: Maybe something like this http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/us/html/portablessdt1/overview.html?gclid=CJfl5Jj8iscCFYSPHwodf9oJ-g, claiming 450 MB/s. I had a notebook at work with a hard drive, and the extract-from-repository, build, and unit test process took 20 minutes with my hdd and 12 on my USB 3.0 thumb drive. So if you want to carry your work around with you, it makes sense.
 
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Thanks William444555 for responding, and to answer your question "NO" not using usb hub at all just simple using thru my pc usb. :) i'm using this SSD drive as my back up/storage drive only. I thought most device now a days are simply plug and play device and both windows and macs friendly user?
 
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"...both windows and macs friendly user" Nope. To make your life difficult, Windows and MacOS use different default file systems. Windows is still (at least on 7 that I'm running) using NTFS, and MacOS is using HFS Plus. When my daughter went to college I bought her a backup drive. Two nearly identical boxes on the shelf, one for Windows and one for Mac.

Of course, either one could be reformatted (destructively) to the other. And you can get software for Windows that reads HFS+ and, for all I know, software for Mac that reads NTFS.

Not to mention all the poor sods who have connected external drives to their televisions to find that they can no longer read the drive on PC or Mac, whichever they had first. The TV reformatted them to something proprietary.
 
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Hi WyomingKnott, unfortunately the device manager cannot detect my drive that's my main concern about it. if my PC can't see or detect my SSD drive then how can this backup/storage drive be used? the main purpose i brought this drive to be used as my backup/storage drive only and why is it such this happen to a device? supposedly modern device are window and mac friendly user?
 
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Hey reedo_43,
to answer your question to why i'm using ssd external drive is mainly for only backup/storages purposes and Thank you for answering my other question about the format and partition. so everytime I buy a raw materials such as HDD/SSD I have to formatted myself to which ever OS I want to? and is there a software that i can used to format and partition such as this drive be both windows and macs user friendly??? and another thing i do planning to in the near future to replace my laptop primary drive (HDD) to a SSD drive because i have seen in youtube and read how SSD run and its performance are way better and faster than HDD. :)
 
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hehe i see that now bro!.....Thanks :) and yes I do know about the NTFS for Window and HFS plus for MacOS way back. :) and now i also know that if you have a files that is more than 4GB size must used exFAT format to be able to save it to backup/storage drive, but also if the size is below 4GB still used the FAT32 format. :)
 
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I don't used desktop anymore 🙁 i'm more of laptop/notebook user now 😉 and so how can i format/partition it from laptop? and i do see and detect my SDD when i plug it in to the usb port from my laptop and it say unallocated disk from the disk management, and can i used exFAT format so i can used to window/mac? and able to save files that is above 4GB size?
 
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reedo_43,

"NO" im using my laptop usb port to plug this raw SSD and see if my SDD can be detect but unfortunately it doesn't detect according to the device manager so now i know that i have to format/partition it first to its specific OS to be able to used this drive after. and if u can is there a software where i can used to format/ partition this drive to be able to used as Window/Mac friendly user? :)
 
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Yes I can format to FAT32 but this format can only allow to save files under 4GB and cannot save files above 4GB. I was think of exFAT/ecFAT format a drive so i can save files above 4GB size.
 
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oh ok hehe thanks
 
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