Posts Tagged 'External Hard Drive'

Is It Possible to Back Up Both Mac and Windows Systems to the Same External Hard Drive?

It is well-known that Mac and Windows uses different file system format. Therefore, many users wonder whether it's possible to back up both Mac and Windows systems to the same hard drive. This post will look at this question to expose the answer. As we all know, the native file system in Mac OS is Hierarchical File System (HFS), and in Windows, it is NTFS. Mac is able to read the NTFS drive data, but unable to write to it. Yet, Windows is totally incapable of no matter reading or writing...

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Is It OK to Back up Multiple Computers to a Single External Hard Drive?

How many computers or laptops do you have? If you hold more than one computer for different use, you should back up all of them. At this time, you may wonder if it's OK to back them up to one external hard drive. This article will tell you the answer. Nowadays, it is believed that a great amount of users have more than one laptops and computers. Each one may be used for different fields. Yet, irrespective of the actual use of these machines, it's prudent and extremely important to back up...

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Should You Keep External Hard Drive Connected All the Time?

Many users are confused about whether it is advisable to keep the external hard drive connected all the time. Therefore, in this article, we will look at this issue and make a detailed discussion. When it comes to data protection, making regular data backups will occur to your minds definitely. It’s because that data backups will be able to make great effects in data recovery. For example, if your original Outlook PST file is corrupt, you still can restore corrupt Outlook data from backups...

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