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I ordered one. Thanks for the suggestion! Do I plug one of these into my main router and then the remote one in the closet I want the signal? Is that the setup? Thanks again

For clarification, I am unable to get a wifi signal directly outside of the closet with my phone, iPad or MacBook Pro. Even with the closet door closed. I can get a connection as I walk away from the closet (further from the router). There is unfortunately no ethernet in the area to pull into...

I have an outdoor closet on the other side of a room, and I installed a Rachio internet based sprinkler timer in it, and I need to use a device to connect to it to the internet. I have been unable to get internet right by this closet with my new iPhone 12 Pro Max, two older iPad Pros, my Mac...

Is there an advantage to using some cloning program to mirror the drive onto an empty one VS. just manually dragging all of my folders from the drive to a an empty one? Worst case scenario, if the drive stops working, I will need to have a specialist recover everything. Assuming that there is...

I have a 4TB HGST drive from 2014 that is using about 2.29TB. I use it by plugging it into an external dock to use with Lightroom on my Mac. All of my photos and videos are stored on it and my last backup was about 2 months ago... It just started making a strange buzzing sound. I ejected the...

I am using the SSD/external dock with an iMac, so unfortunately, I can not add it internally. Will I see much performance increase by using a 1TB Samsung SSD vs. a 7200 RPM 4 or 6TB HD? Reason why I specified the size of the hard drive is those are the sizes I currently use, and I am not sure...

My friend's kid spilled water on his MacBook Pro and it will not boot up. He has already tried to power it on several times so the whole thing may be fried at this point. It has been several days now since this happened and on the day it happened he took it to the apple store, they opened it and...

I was thinking of getting an SSD and using it with an external dock for editing video. When not in use, the SSD will be stored in a secure plastic HD case. Is this a bad idea for any reason? Are SSD drives any more fragile or prone to damage by connecting them and unconnecting them in a dock...

My plan is to get an enclosure that will work as JBOD and have either 2 or 4 drives in it. 1. On a Mac, when the individual drives are unmounted, how would I mount one of the drives when needed? 2. What did you mean by " don't MAP to the drives, just access the shared device?" Thanks

Thanks for the replies! I didn’t realize that ransome ware was such a serious concern….I know next to nothing about it. I do not want to rely on cloud services for my backups (I use it to store files for convenience and to share files only). I also do not trust any cloud services with my media...

I use an iMac and docking station with several bare bones drives that I access from drive cases as needed. The drives that I use most frequently are as follows: - Photos/Videos 6TB - Time Machine Backup 4TB (I plug this in every few days to do an automated backup of the internal 512SSD) - a 6TB...

Thank you for your response. Does the technology being crammed into larger sized drives like the 6TB ones increase the possible failure rates? Is there some point where increasing the size of hard drive capacity is no longer a good idea, sort of like cramming camera optics into smart phones that...

I want to get some HGST 6TB hard drives to use to backup other drives. I know the 3 and 4TB HGST drives have been found to be reliable, though does anyone know anything about the 6TB ones? Thanks.

I want to get rid of an all-in-one printer/scanner/fax, though I want to make sure there is no internal hard drive or memory that might have saved some of the copies/faxes that I have sent over the years. I can't seem to find anything when I search online regarding this. Does anyone have any...