“I'm looking at this product as a means for backing up AND transferring data from a Windows 7 PC to an iMac, as well as being a backup for the iMac. Would this product be suitable for doing so? 1TB is more than enough space for all the data.”
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Yes, you may use for both, just partition the drive, there very easy to understand tutorials on laCie's web page. Size is an issue you need to review by looking at your "c" drive or wherever you are presently storing your items that you want to backup. Example for MS Word documents if your word documents are 10 megabytes (mb) each , you could fit a hundred thousand of them on this drive.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes, it is very reliable. You would need to format it exFat to be compatible with both Windows and OSX for file transferring. Can't remember what the default format is. To use as backup for Mac you would then need to reformat it as HFS+ to use Time Machine, or keep it exFat and use another backup software.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You have to worry about drivers and the formatting of the disc itself. FAT32 will work between the two platforms, but you're limited to 4gb file sizes. You can buy some drivers or software to load on the PC that will allow you to read and write to mac files. I think formatting still needs to be taken into account. Looking at doing this myself right now.
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