Hello all,
I realise this could be placed in the general hardware section - but figured that with the Mac slant, I'd pop it up here. Mods - please move it if necessary!
I spent a fair whack of the morning reading up about external storage, having searched through MyBB ["external HDD"; "External Storage"; "External Backup" - if I missed an obvious search term - please share!] - and have a fair idea of what's cooking... But would appreciate any thoughts/comments.
The wife is due to replace her ageing laptop soon. It will probably be a Window OS machine.
I have a MBP.
Along with 2 iPhones and 3 iPads.
With the recent purchase of an Asus Rt-n55u router - I can now attach a External HDD to the router.
I have a few questions about this though, that I figured I would clarify, prior to purchasing the HDD:
1.) Can we "both" share that HDD? Would each of us simply "upload" whatever we want, over wifi, off our laptops and onto the HDD plugged into the Router? Since the HDD would not plug directly into either of our laptops, its formatting would presumably not be an issue (i.e. mine needing Mac compatible, hers being Windows)... Is that correct?
2.) Assuming the above to be correct - and I'm not sure it is at all - what about iTunes? If I send my 80gb's of music over to the Router HDD - and point my Itunes in that direction - will all work as it should? And when my wife does the same with her iTunes library? Can 2 co-exist on one HDD?
3.) All the above means we are effectively taking files off 2 computers, and putting all of those eggs into 1 basket - the router HDD... Which already has me nervous. So - what would be the best way to keep everything safe? Purchase a 2nd HDD, and back-up the shared router HDD? And then - how is this done? I have plenty of media stuff that I hardly ever access during the day - music/photos/movies - so it kind of makes sense to get it off my Mac, and onto a centralised HDD... But this would not amount to a "backup", since the data would only be found on the router HDD - so what do you all do to cover yourselves here?
Would love to hear how you all do it!
I realise this could be placed in the general hardware section - but figured that with the Mac slant, I'd pop it up here. Mods - please move it if necessary!
I spent a fair whack of the morning reading up about external storage, having searched through MyBB ["external HDD"; "External Storage"; "External Backup" - if I missed an obvious search term - please share!] - and have a fair idea of what's cooking... But would appreciate any thoughts/comments.
The wife is due to replace her ageing laptop soon. It will probably be a Window OS machine.
I have a MBP.
Along with 2 iPhones and 3 iPads.
With the recent purchase of an Asus Rt-n55u router - I can now attach a External HDD to the router.
I have a few questions about this though, that I figured I would clarify, prior to purchasing the HDD:
1.) Can we "both" share that HDD? Would each of us simply "upload" whatever we want, over wifi, off our laptops and onto the HDD plugged into the Router? Since the HDD would not plug directly into either of our laptops, its formatting would presumably not be an issue (i.e. mine needing Mac compatible, hers being Windows)... Is that correct?
2.) Assuming the above to be correct - and I'm not sure it is at all - what about iTunes? If I send my 80gb's of music over to the Router HDD - and point my Itunes in that direction - will all work as it should? And when my wife does the same with her iTunes library? Can 2 co-exist on one HDD?
3.) All the above means we are effectively taking files off 2 computers, and putting all of those eggs into 1 basket - the router HDD... Which already has me nervous. So - what would be the best way to keep everything safe? Purchase a 2nd HDD, and back-up the shared router HDD? And then - how is this done? I have plenty of media stuff that I hardly ever access during the day - music/photos/movies - so it kind of makes sense to get it off my Mac, and onto a centralised HDD... But this would not amount to a "backup", since the data would only be found on the router HDD - so what do you all do to cover yourselves here?
Would love to hear how you all do it!
