I need to load all my digital music and documents on to a device to take to Canada with me. Any recommendations? I'm looking at around 2TB of data.
I'm thinking it may also become my storage source for playing music when I get there: My mate, who I'll be staying with initially, has a Sonos system, but I'll also want to be able to connect to my phone to listen through headphones. I'll probably get a wireless system when I get my own place.
My music and documents are currently stored on my Synology Diskstation 114 NAS, which is a bit cumbersome (both size-wise and connectivity-wise) to take.
[Not sure if this is making sense]
Are the wi-fi WD Passports any good?
WD Passports are good, never used the Wi-Fi ones.
I guess as long as I can connect directly to my phone (Android) or Macbook, then that will take care of the bluetooth/wi-fi bit. The only trouble is Macbooks require a different formatting format, I think.
You ok with US border force taking a copy of it? Macs will read FAT32 formatted discs ok but not NTFS. You can install a preference pane to allow read and write access. Here's free open source ones and Paragon do a paid for one (it's expensive for something around 100kB)
The only trouble is Macbooks require a different formatting format, I think.
If you're accessing it over Wi-Fi rather than directly connected then disk format is an irrelevance I'd have thought.
Another option (maybe cheaper) is the Ravpower Filehub. Just plug your USB hard drive or memory cards etc into that, and it will make them wireless. https://www.amazon.co.uk/RAVPower-Wireless-Portable-Companion-Streamer/dp/B00TI3WQJS
Would Canadian border control be interested? I don't have a problem with them looking it over, though.
you ok with US border force taking a copy of it?
He’s going to Canada...
That looks interesting, Craig. Thanks.
Another option (maybe cheaper) is the Ravpower Filehub.
Oh, what a handy thing! Thanks for that.
The only trouble is Macbooks require a different formatting format, I think.
Mac's use their own formatting for on-board drives (Mac OS Extended Journaled etc) but they'll read (and format/reformat) external drives as MS-DOS(FAT) or EXFAT too. Drives in those formats will plug and play fine with a mac and unless someone intends to use a drive exclusively with one machine/with macs then they'll typically be formatted that way anyway so that theres no compatibility issues with PCs etc
Thanks mac.
Leftfield idea, leave the NAS at home and just access the files on it directly? Apparently this is possible using Sonos:
[url= https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?t=124341 ]Synology to Sonos[/url]
Essentially, my own private cloud? Interesting idea but I'm either taking stuff, or I'm getting rid of it, so if it isn't coming, it's gotta go.