Pls recommend a WiFi hearddrive.

[extraT]

Chaps,

Mrs has a Mac, I have windows. I want to back up files for our business from both onto a WiFi hard drive. I need this to be as simple as: bring the laptops into the house, they connect to the WiFi, read any new files sync and back them up.

Basically, I want three copies of those files: one store locally, one on an external hard drive and one will be in google docs.

Files are nothing more then office/pdf etc... (of course if they back up photos etc.. that would be great too!

Any suggestions?

Thanks

ET

[anonymous-user]

Network drive.

Then backup software on the pc.

Drive permanently connected to network via ethernet.

[FlossyThePig]

Take care which format you use. I have a USB hard drive (1TB) bought when I had a Windows PC so I formatted it using NTFS. I now have an iMac and it cannot write new files to the disk. A newer USB hard drive (also 1TB) has been formatted using exFAT which allows read and write on the mac and my old Windows netbook. Windows does not recognise the apple APFS format.

[bakerstreet]

I have WD MyCloud device which I have had for about two years and its pretty good. Only about £130 I think

[wombleh]

What you need is a NAS (network attached storage) with Google drive support. Synology do a number of boxes that I think will do what you want. Suspect most NAS will do that these days.

How you sync files between your pc, Mac and nas will be more complicated. Synology have a bit of software called synology drive that looks like it'll do what you're after on both Mac and windows.

[gus607]

I also use a WD MyCloud 4TB NAS. Two & a half years old, never had a problem & I leave it on 24/7.