• ​None of the contenders came up to the level of the Airport Time Capsule in terms of the facilities it currently offers. • a wireless device that offers its own Wi-Fi and pass through connection to the Internet • plus a backup destination for Time Machine • plus the ability to store and share files with Macs and PCs on the same Wi-Fi network • and a few other things the Time Capsule does. (I have if you want to refresh yourself).

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For a Mac user that loves the Apple Time Capsule and I do it's depressing. • Not one of the wireless hard drives I looked at can be used as a backup destination for Time Machine. Don't try unless you want to turn them into with no Wi-Fi - and let's face it there are cheaper and better alternatives for a standard backup drive. • These are not backup drives at all really. The wireless hard drives on the market are really aimed at being entertainment devices. A place to store photos, videos, music mainly. They focus on the market where streaming videos and movies over Wi-Fi is the thing.

That said • Apart from the WD My Passport Wireless Pro (and that product only has limited capabilities), none of the contenders do any encoding, so you need to make sure that what you are looking to view, be it photos, videos or documents they are in a format that the viewing or listening device can read. This means that the file must be in a format the mobile tablet or phone understand before you try to stream or view. • None of the devices will allow you to stream iTunes purchased movies, in fact DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected media cannot be streamed by any of these devices as Apple took away that facility as of IOS 8 so unless you have a device running an earlier release of IOS you will have no joy. Replacements for quicken mac 2017. If this is the reason for purchasing one of these drives, let me save you some time and frustration - don’t.