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External Hard Drive - Wi-fi
Posted on 12/1/15 at 9:23 am
Posted on 12/1/15 at 9:23 am
Any deals and/or advice on external hard drives that are wi-fi enabled? Is the wifi worth the extra $100?
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Posted on 12/1/15 at 9:32 am to BigPerm30
Most routers support attaching a plain vanilla drive and making it available over the network.
Posted on 12/1/15 at 9:38 am to Layabout
Good point. I never thought about just attaching it to my router.
Posted on 12/1/15 at 2:20 pm to BigPerm30
I use a wifi drive to play movies on the plane or long road trips.
If you aren't going to use the drive like that, save the money.
If you aren't going to use the drive like that, save the money.
Posted on 12/1/15 at 4:35 pm to Layabout
quote:I had no idea you could do that... Can you do a Mac Time Machine backup that way?
Most routers support attaching a plain vanilla drive and making it available over the network.
Posted on 12/1/15 at 10:40 pm to Mac
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Can you do a Mac Time Machine backup that way?
Not sure about Mac but Windows backup doesn't like network drives, you have to use third-party software or one of the premium Windows versions.
This post was edited on 12/1/15 at 10:44 pm
Posted on 12/2/15 at 11:29 am to Mac
You should be able to - you just have to format the drive as a TM
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